Two of the uuencoded files in this directory contain the publicly released firmware that needs to be loaded into the Olicom boards for them to work. (Also found in the linux distribution of the drivers). The third contains an ELF object binary of the lowest set of routines that Olicom use to talk at teh register set level. Olicom consider this interface secret and proprietary, but allow the inclusion of them in binary form as long as they are being used in conjunction with a driver to talk with only Olicom boards. (It's hard to see how else they would be used but...) Olicom has made these 3 files available in binary for for Linux and freeBSD. The Olicom board is at the moment the only driver we have for Tokenring, and as such significantly expands the reach of FreeBSD in IBM shops. If this were not the case I may not be so quick to put a .o file into the tree but Olicom have actually been very helpful with assistance except for this one point. julian elischer