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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any usable token ring drivers for FreeBSD?
Date: 7 Sep 1995 02:36:11 GMT
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pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) wrote:
>Are there any token ring cards supported by FreeBSD?  If so, which brand,
>model and/or chipset are OK?  Can anyone comment on the reliability of
>any of these drivers?  This will not be an extremely busy machine (sitting
>behind a 56kb link takes care of that) but it does need to be reliable.

This seems to come up about every 5 months or so and each time the token
ring folks divide themselves into two camps:

1. Those that care about token ring support but don't want to implement it.
2. Those who could implement it if they cared, but do not.

What we need is a third camp, namely those who both want it and wish to
implement it, or we'll forever be without token ring support and that's
the bottom line.

Sigh.

					Jordan