Olicom Token Ring Cards

[billm]

FWIW, it's probably because we don't enable the oltr(4) driver:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oltr&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE
in our kernel.  I don't see much use for it in general in our tree though - it's outdated hardware and it's not worth putting a driver that maybe one person on this planet might use in the tree.  I'd suggest pulling down the dev iso and rolling your own - the build process is relatively simple and all you need to do is add the driver to the kernel config.  Or get a token ring -> ethernet translational bridge from Olicom (er eBay - hell I can probably dig a few out of the scrap pile at work sigh).

–Bill

[trout]

@billm:

I'd suggest pulling down the dev iso and rolling your own - the build process is relatively simple and all you need to do is add the driver to the kernel config.  Or get a token ring -> ethernet translational bridge from Olicom (er eBay - hell I can probably dig a few out of the scrap pile at work sigh).

–Bill

Can you give me the brief howto on that …
  ... do you mean down load the dev tar or just modify an install of rc1

Might just take you up on the bridge offer.

Thanks

[sullrich]

1. Download the developer ISO
2. Load the developer iso and then login to console
3. Wait for the developer bootstrap process to finish
3. Edit /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfSense.6 and add the device
5. cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/
6. ./build_iso.sh

Wait for it to finish and then you will see an ISO (it will tell you the location).

Please keep in mind this is unsupported territory you are in.

[Numbski]

But it's gloriously FUN unsupported territory. :D

Really.  This will get your foot into the burgening token-ring marketplace.  It's about to boom I tell ya.  ;D

[trout]

Yeah legacy is a drag.  Beats mass conversion ( $$$ and headache ) Sure Cobol programmers feel the same way.  It nice to be able to make the transition tranparent.

Don't like it either, but it sure goes a long way when you can say "no problem can do that" to the people with the money.

With a poor attitude open source can leave a bad taste in Power that be.  Open source is about just making it work, and work well.  With the added bonus of not spending an arm and a leg.

On to real stuff …..

the script that graps the CVS file for pfSense inside of build_iso.sh just fails really not much information

[sullrich]

The Freesbie server is currently offline.  This data is needed to build a CD.

[trout]

Ok, thanks

.. ETA … is there big problem or just routine up when u done?

[sullrich]

Not sure what the problem is.  I don't admin their server.

[trout]

@sullrich:

1. Download the developer ISO
2. Load the developer iso and then login to console
3. Wait for the developer bootstrap process to finish
3. Edit /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfSense.6 and add the device
5. cd /home/pfsense/tools/builder_scripts/
6. ./build_iso.sh

Wait for it to finish and then you will see an ISO (it will tell you the location).

Please keep in mind this is unsupported territory you are in.

I know this is unsupported but could I get a little assistance so I can learn how this works …

I did as above, but update_cvs_depot function from inside build_iso.sh
complained
"move away pfSense/RELENG_1; it is in the way.
so I did some digging
added export SKIP_CHECKOUT=yes
and    export SKIP_RSYNC=yes
to my pfsense_local.sh

but it still tries to get CVS files

... so I commented out the call  ( cvs is not important to me this point )

... so now when freebsd build is running I notice that it complained about not having
bsdinstaller
cpdup
lua
lighttpd

how do you get the these packages into the build process ????

thanks .......... ahead of time

[Numbski]

Skip checkout and skip rsync?

You should probably allow one of those to run.  I'd leave the checkout in there and set rsh=ssh.

That's the FreeBSD admin in me talking and not a pfSense dev, so YMMV. :)

Side note, I have a Token Ring Jetdirect card for a color laserjet sitting here that mistakenly shipped with my printer.  Have a use for it? :D