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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Token Ring support
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:06:12 -0700
Organization: Me
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Rob Taylor wrote:
]
] Has anyone seen any Token Ring adapter support for freebsd? I'm
] curious because I need to set up a Unix system on a Token Ring
] network, and would like to go with BSD, but if it doesn't support
] it I'll need to use Linux.
You should check the -current list archives on www.freebsd.org.
There is an alpha driver that was announced some time ago. In
addition, there was a recent request (two days ago) to the -hackers
list for a method of assigning two address ranges to a PCMCIA
token ring card.
If you are up for the baroque work needed to use token ring at
all, you are probably up for porting whatever Linux driver you
are interested in using. If you can contact the driver author
and get his/her permission for a UCB style license for the
thing, it could even make it into the default distribution.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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