RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-11 Thread Jay West
9:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) From: Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com To: Jay West jw...@ezwind.net Cc: 'Adam Vande More' amvandem...@gmail.com; 'mikel king' mikel.k...@olivent.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-09 Thread perryh
Jay West jw...@ezwind.net 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

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- 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

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

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

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

RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Jay West
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 to use the Token Ring

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 on

RE: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Jay West
To: Jay West 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 driver for token ring

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Jay West jw...@ezwind.net 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: