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)

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- 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

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)

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)

2012-04-09 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)

2012-04-08 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)

2012-04-08 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)

2012-04-06 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)

2012-04-06 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 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
ender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jay West Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:31 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Token Ring (really) I used t

Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Jay West
I used to use the Token Ring driver in previous versions of FreeBSD (I think it was the oli one I was using). I know that Token Ring support was removed several releases ago. I again now have a somewhat pressing need for Token Ring support on FreeBSD 9. The FreeBSD Token Ring Project seems to be in