From owner-freebsd-tokenring Mon Aug 24 13:41:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04243 for freebsd-tokenring-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04238 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA16545; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:40:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:40:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Larry S. Lile" cc: tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100 Mbit Token ring adapters from Olicom. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Larry S. Lile wrote: > Olicom has announced their 100Mbit Token Ring adapter! The specs and > datasheet are available from their website at www.olicom.com under > products/network products/Token-Ring products/High-Speed Token-Ring For some value of 'datasheet'. Looking at the card itself I can make out what appears to be an MII PHY by Level1 (probably an LXT979. HSTR uses Fast Ethernet PHYs IIRC.), a TI part that could read 'TLAN' (TI shows no new HSTR parts on their webpage though.), and a big ass FPGA labeled ALTERA FLEX (which www.altera.com reveals to be a PLD (Programable Logic Device). I'm not sure if this means that Olicom is still in the 'production prototype' phase and aren't ready to burn themselves an ASIC or what. Or maybe the expected sales volume is too low to justify an ASIC or the volume is so high that they can get really good prices on the PLDs.) Regardless, they probably will be reluctant to provide programming information. Has someone contacted them yet? > Looks like token ring may not be as dead as everyone would like to > beleive :) Its only as dead as Betamax or OS/2. Superior technical solutions aren't always the winners in a consumer driven market. :/ On a bright note, I got -all- the stuff from TI on their TMS380 series token-ring controller including a a big yellow book. Too bad they didn't have a PDF. :/ I'll try and set aside some time for driver hacking once I get the computers up again (just finished moving). -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message