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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Token ring driver exist [Y/N] ? Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:12:28 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 36 Message-ID: <28cq7q$508@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <28buba$5rv@piston.ecp.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <28buba$5rv@piston.ecp.fr> adjihc4@cti.ecp.fr (Cedric Adjih) writes: > I know that this question has been asked before, but it is quite important >for who owns a token ring card, so : > > Does the token ring driver exist in NetBSD,FreeBSD (or whatever you want if >it is free software) ? > Not yet. I have no idea who (if anyone) is working on it. Nate Williams offered to host a list of projects and coordinators, but I've never heard of anyone actually trying to set one up that way. If you actually get started writing it, you will get some support (I expect), but someone needs to start the ball rolling. > [ In fact I have tried to got the "driver" part of NetBSD, but after looking >the ls-lR (index) of the ftp server I wasn't able to see in what files it >could be, so if someone could give me a pointer it would be great.] > Chances are you will need to do some heavy hacking to get it going that way. Most of the files are compressed tar files of entire release trees. If you are going to find it via FTP, you will need to look on a machine that has the entire source tree available. -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX