From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 06:31:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20887 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:31:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.31.78.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20880 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA04967; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:30:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Robert Glover cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? In-Reply-To: <007c01bd416e$8099c110$a7141aac@snarfblat.memberworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Robert Glover wrote: > Has there been any progress on supporting Token Ring in FreeBSD yet? I'm > rapidly tiring of Windows NT's instability as a workstation OS, and want to > switch, but our corporate network is still Token Ring, and we're at least a > year away from switching over to Fast Ethernet. I'm working on a few other things as a prelude to doing Token Ring support. (I'm also waiting on SMC to get me the SDK for their TokenElite product.) There are a few other prople who have expressed an interest and have actually got some code but until the 802.2/802.5 code is written just having device drivers won't do us much. Feel free to jump in or come back and ask again in 6 months. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message