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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!sparky!nlcnews.nlc.state.ne.us!mother.esu1.k12.ne.us!meckhoff From: meckhoff@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us (Mike Eckhoff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Network Card Support Date: 4 Jun 1995 05:21:19 GMT Organization: NLC Nebraska Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3qrfsf$kiv@nlcnews.nlc.state.ne.us> References: <1995May22.134656.43602@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <3q9h9f$6ee@news.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mother.esu1.k12.ne.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2-E1] Christoph P. Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote: : Steven J. Woodruff (sjwoodr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote: : : I scanned the FAQ but was unable to determine wether FreeBSD will : : support IBM Token-Ring cards (TR III 16/4). Could someone please : : advise me on this? I am considering of switching over from the : : wonderful world of Linux (1.2.8) and was considering installing : Does Linux support Token Ring cards? Which ones? : What version of Linux? Linux does not have TR support in the standard kernel, but you can get a patch for it from from ftp://linux3.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Linux/TokenRing/TokenRing.patch-1.2.0.gz. I have been using it for about 8mo w/o problems. I have also put this patch into all kernels from 1.1.5x to 1.2.9. : : FreeBSD at work _first_ before i scratch a years work in Linux. The : : only problem is that at work we only have Token Ring, rather than : : ethernet :( Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. : : /steve : : -- : : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : : Steve Woodruff sjwoodr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu : : Network Services / Computer Science sjwoodr@bacchus.net.ilstu.edu : : Illinois State University http://www.ilstu.edu/~sjwoodr : -- : --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de : FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Mar 19 : 17:20:44 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386 -- +---------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Mike Eckhoff - Einglebert | Can we be famous and | | Technology Director | not look famous? | | Wayne Community Schools | We'll never know. | | EMail: meckhoff@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us | We're neither. | | Home: (402) 375-1264 +-------------------------------+ | Work: (402) 375-1904 | Fax: (402) 375-4111 | | (402) 375-3150 | (402) 375-5251 | +---------------------------------------+-------------------------------+