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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs
Date: 9 Sep 1996 13:39:51 GMT
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chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor) wrote:

> Yes.   The NetBSD and OpenBSD ATM stuff should also work under FreeBSD.
> At least I had ported it to FreeBSD a few months ago and submitted it for
> inclusion in FreeBSD (but no one ever got back around to doing it so
> I guess there is no interest in it from the FreeBSD front, oh well).

It's rather that there is nobody who has the ability to maintain the
driver.  I don't know about anybody of the kernel hackers who's got
access to an ATM network.

Make sure you use send-pr to submit your stuff.  A quick query to the
GNATS database doesn't pop up your name there:

j@uriah 151% query-pr -O cranor
j@uriah 152% 

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)