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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q] Will BSD support Token Ring? Date: 7 Sep 1994 21:15:07 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <34lagr$bdf@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <34ktdf$38v@sphinx.gsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <34ktdf$38v@sphinx.gsu.edu> cprklk@gsusgi2.Gsu.EDU (Kevin Kitchens) writes: >I am using a Novell token ring network and want to hook up a UNIX box to >it...I have tried Linux (ducking thrown objects) and cannot get it to >talk to my token ring system... > >Can BSD handle this task? I basically want the UNIX box to be Internet >accessible. To my knowledge there are no TR drivers for free unix, and no plans for them. We are primarily a TR shop at work, but I've run ethernet to my office. :-) If you are an administrator for this network, you could put an ethernet card in the server, and have it route tcpip for you. Or you could use a WFW311 (with MSTCPIP32) with a TR and an ethernet to route for you. Someone else may know of work on a TR driver though. I know that there is a TR driver available for Mach, I don't know how hard it would be to port it. (not that *I* could..) -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================