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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AHA2940/Tokenring? Date: 22 Jul 1995 02:59:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3uppi9$1nk@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3umefh$1nr5@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <3umk2a$c5l@agate.berkeley.edu> <3up1ms$5f2@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3up1ms$5f2@crl.crl.com>, Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote: >What about FDDI? ( which happens to be a "token ring" protocol? We currently support one (DEC) FDDI adaptor. FDDI is a different kettle of fish, and let it also please be noted that when I say "FreeBSD doesn't support Token Ring" what I'm REALLY saying is that FreeBSD doesn't support any of the commonly used Madge or IBM Token Ring *adapter* cards. There's nothing more ideological about it than that. Please also note that if someone were to donate such drivers then we'd certainly stick them in the tree, but the death of token ring seems to have made this a non-starter. Not one person has come forward with a project to provide this support, just the occasional person asking if it's already done. Jordan