From owner-freebsd-announce Wed May 24 08:53:49 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA14641 for announce-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:49 -0700 Received: from fore.com (relay.fore.com [169.144.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA14629 ; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:46 -0700 Received: from dolphin (dolphin.fore.com [169.144.1.16]) by fore.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA05428; Wed, 24 May 1995 11:52:22 -0400 Received: from loach.fore.com by dolphin (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27037; Wed, 24 May 95 11:53:12 EDT Received: from lamprey by loach.fore.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25134; Wed, 24 May 95 11:53:11 EDT Message-Id: <9505241553.AA25134@loach.fore.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, announce@FreeBSD.org Cc: pss@fore.com Subject: Drivers for FORE systems cards under FreeBSD Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:53:10 -0400 From: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran Sender: announce-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had originally mentioned this only to 2 people, which was Jordan K. Hubbard and Paul Henning-Kemp, but since I have received a lot of queries on this, I thought I might as well post it on the FreeBSD announce groups. Included below is a posting done on the Linux-atm mailing group, by Pragnesh Sampat. I have just adapted for FreeBSD. RV -------------------------- Announcement ---------------------------------- Note: This posting is somewhat commercial in nature. FORE Systems is interested in enabling an ATM driver for FreeBSD. For the unfamiliar, FORE Systems supports the widest range of platforms/busses (EISA, PCI relevant to the PCs for example) for ATM adapters for various standard physical media (OC3, Taxi, UTP). Please see below for more information about the company and for contact information. Towards this end we are willing to make the ATM Adaptation Layer Interface (AALI) specification available to the public via various information servers (ftp, www etc.). 200 series adapter cards have an i960 processor to do the SAR. This is done by the firmware which is shipped with the software that goes with the adapter. The firmware is normally downloaded during boot and is mostly transparent to the user. ESA-200PC would come with the right firmware to run on a PC. The AALI is an interface to the firmware and will be needed for driver development if a 200 series adapter will be used. It would something like: IP | Driver | firmware | 200 series The AALI is available from: ftp.fore.com:/pub/docs/ aali.readme aali.ps --Pragnesh FORE Systems, Inc. Company and Contact Information: FORE Systems is the worldwide leader in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of high performance local area networking products based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) technology. FORE offers the most comprehensive ATM LAN product line available today including ForeRunner switches, adapter cards, LAN access products, and video adapters, ForeThought internetworking software, and ForeView network management software. FORE has delivered ATM solutions to over 500 customers including Fortune 500 companies, telecommunications service providers, government agencies, research institutions, and universities. FORE Systems' headquarters are located at 174 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086. email: info@fore.com Phone: (412) 772-6600 Fax : (412) 772-6500 -------------------------- Announcement ----------------------------------