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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.13.28.13!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-Beta FDDI Broken? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:32:06 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32F248B6.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970130223445.9784C-100000@foobar.gw2kbbs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Vince Kub <vince@gw2kbbs.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34879 > I had occasion to try and install the 2.2-Beta on a P5-120 machine > that, for various reasons, needed to exist on a FDDI ring. I was using the > DEC PCI DEFPA controller (dual attached fiber, revision E01 of the I'm sorry to say that yes, this is broken. Nate Williams is working on it right now, happily enough, and a fixed FDDI driver should hopefully be in the upcoming 2.2-GAMMA release. Watch comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce or the announce@freebsd.org mailing list for details. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project