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From: meckhoff@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us (Mike Eckhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Network Card Support
Date: 4 Jun 1995 05:21:19 GMT
Organization: NLC Nebraska
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Christoph P. Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
: Steven J. Woodruff (sjwoodr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote:
: : I scanned the FAQ but was unable to determine wether FreeBSD will
: : support IBM Token-Ring cards (TR III 16/4).  Could someone please
: : advise me on this?  I am considering of switching over from the
: : wonderful world of Linux (1.2.8) and was considering installing 
: Does Linux support Token Ring cards? Which ones?
: What version of Linux?

Linux does not have TR support in the standard kernel, but you can get a 
patch for it from from 
ftp://linux3.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Linux/TokenRing/TokenRing.patch-1.2.0.gz.
I have been using it for about 8mo w/o problems.

I have also put this patch into all kernels from 1.1.5x to 1.2.9.

: : FreeBSD at work _first_ before i scratch a years work in Linux.  The
: : only problem is that at work we only have Token Ring, rather than
: : ethernet :(   Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

: : /steve
: : -- 
: : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: :   Steve Woodruff                            sjwoodr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu 
: :   Network Services / Computer Science      sjwoodr@bacchus.net.ilstu.edu 
: :   Illinois State University                http://www.ilstu.edu/~sjwoodr 

: --
: --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
: FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Mar 19
: 17:20:44  1995     root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386

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