Re: your mail

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, FT14 wrote:

> From: narf@eidolon.speakeasy.org (FT14)
> To: netboot@baghira.han.de
> Subject: Olicom packet driver?
> Reply-to: narf@muppetlabs.com
> 
> Okay, this is not your typical setup.  My employer has a large number
> of old clunker '486 machines that are getting replaced. I want to turn
> them into X terminals and put them out in the warehouse so the folks
> out there can use them.  The hitch is my employer is a token-ring shop
> and all the machines have Olicom token ring cards.  Olicom has seen
> the light and they have a linux kernel driver.  Anyone out there seen
> a packet driver for these? I know there's a commercial boot EPROM, but
> I have no budget. We're talking about maybe a hundred or so machines.
Perhaps use them with boot floppies. (I'm astounded how well this works
here). As the floppies are seldom used and replaced, they live quite a
long life :)

Andreas