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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-Beta FDDI Broken? Date: 1 Feb 1997 15:20:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5cvn04$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970130223445.9784C-100000@foobar.gw2kbbs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34994 Vince Kub <vince@gw2kbbs.com> wrote: > 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 card) > and while I could compile a kernel that would recognize the controller and > insert into the ring I wasn't able to do anything very useful with it. Btw., i'm going to pull the upgraded FDDI driver into 2.2 today or tomorrow. It lived in -current for a couple of weeks now. > Attempting to ping other hosts on the ring or examine ARP tables showed > nothing. This seems to be a byte order problem. I'm surprised you're seeing this under 2.2-BETA. I gonna send you a diff in a private mail to try. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)