Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-09-27 Thread mark tinguely
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:59:01PM -0500, mark tinguely wrote: > > > There is nothing like raising a topic that was last seen several months > > ago, but ... > > > > Has there been any serious consideration to committing the arcnet code > > that mentioned on 20 Jul 2001 (http://iclub.nsu.

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-09-27 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:59:01PM -0500, mark tinguely wrote: > There is nothing like raising a topic that was last seen several months > ago, but ... > > Has there been any serious consideration to committing the arcnet code > that mentioned on 20 Jul 2001 (http://iclub.nsu.ru/~fjo

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-09-26 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, mark tinguely wrote: > There is nothing like raising a topic that was last seen several months > ago, but ... > > Has there been any serious consideration to committing the arcnet code > that mentioned on 20 Jul 2001 (http://iclub.nsu.ru/~fjoe/arcnet/)? > > I guess I should

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-09-26 Thread mark tinguely
There is nothing like raising a topic that was last seen several months ago, but ... Has there been any serious consideration to committing the arcnet code that mentioned on 20 Jul 2001 (http://iclub.nsu.ru/~fjoe/arcnet/)? I guess I should ask if anyone else has tried the code. I will most likel

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julian Elischer writes: : what is arcnet? Old, pre-ethernet technology. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-20 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > probably no committers had arcnet or could test it.. I have it and tried to test it last time with no success. I'll try and find some time to look at this stuff. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: > Hmm. Not exactly an oldie myself, but I did have this time warp in > my life when coming out of Russia. So, can picture Max' interest in > ArcNet, at least at the hobby level. Around here, students build > Wavelan's with Lucent cards and an

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:27:43PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > > :Max Khon wrote: > >

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > :Max Khon wrote: > > > :> > > > :> hi, there! > > > : > > > :what is arcnet? > > > : > > > > > >

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Len Conrad
>That's just plain scary ;-) Although I guess Arcnet does have it's niche >applications. niche now (reliable, cheap, shielded & transformer-coupled for nasty e/m environments), but in the 80's, Novell basically built itself up to 80% market share and the LAN marketpalce on ARCnet´s back, while

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > :Max Khon wrote: > > :> > > :> hi, there! > > : > > :what is arcnet? > > : > > > > It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Terrance Young
Arcnet is pretty bullet proof (at least from what I've seen) sheesh the thing runs with open ended connectors, half eaten thru cable, splitters upon splitters upon splitters... well from what I've seen in some businesses it's a wonder its worked heh... Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001,

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Marc wrote: > > I believe there is also 16 and 100 Mbit arcnet > > hardware available ;) > > That's just plain scary ;-) Although I guess Arcnet does have it's niche > applications. yes. it is often used as solution for "last mile" problem and people ask for Arc

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Marc
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > what is arcnet? > > > > Old PC networking standard, limited to 2Mbit/S. > > I believe there is also 16 and 100 Mbit arcnet > hardware available ;) That's just plain scary ;-) Although I guess Arcnet does have it's niche applications. -marc To

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > hi, there! > > > > what is arcnet? > > Old PC networking standard, limited to 2Mbit/S. I believe there is also 16 and 100 Mbit arcnet hardware available ;) At least, so I was told by one happy arcnet fan. Rik -- Virtual me

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010719 03:29] wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > hi, there! > > > > what is arcnet? > > Old PC networking standard, limited to 2Mbit/S. My college had it, if they still do I may be able to toss them a FreeBSD cdrom and say "go for it". :) -- -Alfred Per

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: > > hi, there! > > what is arcnet? Old PC networking standard, limited to 2Mbit/S. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > :Max Khon wrote: > :> > :> hi, there! > : > :what is arcnet? > : > > It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, > as its controllers are cheap, it's pr

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: :Max Khon wrote: :> :> hi, there! : :what is arcnet? : It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case t

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Max Khon wrote: > > hi, there! what is arcnet? > > I have made second attempt to implement Arcnet support for FreeBSD > (the first was made about two years ago and nothing was ever committed) > probably no committers had arcnet or could test it.. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-18 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! I have made second attempt to implement Arcnet support for FreeBSD (the first was made about two years ago and nothing was ever committed) Current bits can be fetched from http://iclub.nsu.ru/~fjoe/arcnet/ In order to use them you should copy dev/, net/ and modules/ to /sys and apply