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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
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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
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