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I would advice either going to a more recent kernel, or back to 1.2.x,
and applying the TR patch.  As far as I can tell, the built-in TR support
in 1.3 was broken early on, and not fixed until very recently.

I had no end of problems - normally showing as booting and init'ing the
TR card ok, could ping ok, but any more then that (such as telnet or ftp,
either into or out of the Linux machine) gave a kernel panic.

Compiled up 1.3.72 the other day and it's been running perfectly ever
since.  I'm using a Madge Straight Blue right now but have also used
some older IBM 4/16 cards.

Leonard

I'm so frustrated by linux token ring support and by reading
news articles from people who say they have theirs working.  
I've been trying for months without success.  As far as I can
tell, it should work on my system.  If you have any pity,
please look below at my configuration and see if you can help
me get this thing running.  Otherwise, I have no alternative
but to dump linux.

Linux version 1.3.59
IBM Token Ring Adapter 16/4 with Tropic Chipset

The switches on my token ring card are:
        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12
        1  0  0  1  1  0  0  0  1  1  0  1
        \______________/  \__/  |  \__/  |___ 16Mbps data rate
                |           |   |    |________16Kb shared RAM paging
         ROM addr:cc000     |   |_____________primary adapter
                            |_________________interupt 2

My boot up messages from the token ring driver are:
tr0: ISA 16/4 Adapter/II found using irq 9, PIOaddr  a20,
     0K shared RAM.
tr0: Hardware address : 08:00:5A:72:44:4C
tr0: Initial interrupt : shared RAM located at 00000000.
tr0: Adapter initialized and opened.

I created rc.inet1 using netconfig, and followed the directions
in the network howto for forming my netmask address, broadcast
address, etc.

QUESTION 1:
From the messages above, it looks as if the TR driver has
installed properly, but why do these messages indicate 0K
shared RAM located at 00000000?  Would this explain why I
cannot ping to anywhere outside my machine?

QUESTION 2:
I'm on a subnet, and when I run tcpip from DOS (which works
fine, by the way) the address of my "default router" is printed on
the screen.  I'm using this address as my gateway address in my
rc.inet1 configuration file.  Is this correct?  Since I'm on a
subnet, do I need to include addresses of machines on all networks
that I pass through?

Thanks, Jonas.

Hi,

Quote:

>Linux version 1.3.59
>IBM Token Ring Adapter 16/4 with Tropic Chipset

>The switches on my token ring card are:
>    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12
>    1  0  0  1  1  0  0  0  1  1  0  1
>    \______________/  \__/  |  \__/  |___ 16Mbps data rate
>            |           |   |    |________16Kb shared RAM paging
>     ROM addr:cc000     |   |_____________primary adapter
>                        |_________________interupt 2

>My boot up messages from the token ring driver are:
>tr0: ISA 16/4 Adapter/II found using irq 9, PIOaddr  a20,
>     0K shared RAM.
>tr0: Hardware address : 08:00:5A:72:44:4C
>tr0: Initial interrupt : shared RAM located at 00000000.
>tr0: Adapter initialized and opened.

On which system are you running the card ? I presume you have an PCI based
system. I have seen this problem before on PCI machines. The problems seems
to be related to the fact that the tokenring board uses shared memory to
communicate with the CPU. Most BIOSses I have seen have a setting "shared ISA
memory" . Set this to d000 size 16K. Does anyone know what this setting
exactly does ? Is there anyone who has the INTEL triton spec, so I could find
out why this problem occurs ?

Quote:>I created rc.inet1 using netconfig, and followed the directions
>in the network howto for forming my netmask address, broadcast
>address, etc.

>QUESTION 1:
>From the messages above, it looks as if the TR driver has
>installed properly, but why do these messages indicate 0K
>shared RAM located at 00000000?  Would this explain why I
>cannot ping to anywhere outside my machine?

Yes.

Quote:>QUESTION 2:
>I'm on a subnet, and when I run tcpip from DOS (which works
>fine, by the way) the address of my "default router" is printed on
>the screen.  I'm using this address as my gateway address in my
>rc.inet1 configuration file.  Is this correct?  Since I'm on a
>subnet, do I need to include addresses of machines on all networks
>that I pass through?

No.

Peter.