RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Jay West
Well over 20 years experience with FreeBSD, and I was not aware of "Project Evil" ;) I don't know if my olicom card has NDIS versions of their driver for token ring, but if so, that just might work! Still, getting the deprecated oltr driver on FreeBSD9 would be awesome Jay West EZwind.net PO

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread mikel king
On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Jay West wrote: > Well over 20 years experience with FreeBSD, and I was not aware of "Project > Evil" ;) > > I don't know if my olicom card has NDIS versions of their driver for token > ring, but if so, that just might work! Still, getting the deprecated oltr > driver

RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Jay West
est Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Jay West wrote: > Well over 20 years experience with FreeBSD, and I was not aware of > "Project Evil" ;) > > I don't know if my olicom card has NDIS versions of their drive

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Jay West wrote: > Well, found the XP drivers for the card (it's a Madge Smart MK4 PCI > adapter, > not olicom as I thought). > > Ndisgen seemed to work fine > > After kldloading the resulting module, ifconfig shows: > ndis0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 >et

RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-08 Thread Jay West
Adam wrote... Otherwise, it's time to abandon steamships for airplanes. Sounds like you have a primed business opportunity just waiting to be exploited. --- Actually, this is for a historical re-creation project. Airplanes would be entirely inappropriate for a historical display, so stea

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: Adam wrote... Otherwise, it's time to abandon steamships for airplanes. Sounds like you have a primed business opportunity just waiting to be exploited. --- Actually, this is for a historical re-creation project. Airplanes would be entirely inapprop

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-09 Thread perryh
"Jay West" wrote: > this is for a historical re-creation project ... > > I guess I'll have to see how tough it would be to yank > the TR code from 7x and get it running under 9x. Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that cor

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-09 Thread Robert Huff
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: > Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal > easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to > the historical era being re-created? And skip feature, performance, and security improvements made since?

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: Jay West Cc: 'Adam Vande More' ; 'mikel king' ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: > Adam wrote... &

RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-11 Thread Jay West
sday, April 11, 2012 9:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: Jay West Cc: 'Adam Vande More' ; 'mikel king' ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:03 PM S

RE: Token Ring (really- and why)

2012-04-09 Thread Jay West
It was written --- > Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal > easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to the > historical era being re-created? And skip feature, performance, and security improvements made since? -

Re: Token Ring (really- and why)

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 23:42, Jay West wrote: It was written --- Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to the historical era being re-created? And skip feature, performance, and security