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token ring support for slackware or redhat

Post by Pankaj T. Pate » Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:00:00



Does anyone know where I can find drivers to support a token
ring connection?

 
 
 
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token ring support for slackware or redhat

Post by nhisha » Mon, 20 Jan 1997 04:00:00



> Does anyone know where I can find drivers to support a token
> ring connection?

Yes, I would also like to know this.  My environment at work is IBM
token ring only.  I want to use linux there but need the drivers.  If
anyone knows, could you please post it here?

Thanks

Nik Hisham


 
 
 
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token ring support for slackware or redhat

Post by bill davids » Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:00:00




| Does anyone know where I can find drivers to support a token
| ring connection?

Built into the standard kernel? Just recompile with token ring
support on. You have your choice of supported card, the IBM 4/16
auto ISA.
--

"As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
                -Dave Welch

 
 
 
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token ring support for slackware or redhat

Post by Dave Bro » Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:00:00



Quote:

>They're included with the 2.0.x-kernel sources. Do a 'make menuconfig',
>select the token ring stuff (tropic chipset) and make a new kernel. It
>works fine.

The ibmtr.o driver supports the IBM Auto 16/4 card (and I've heard it also
supports the 3Com 3c619c (?) TokenLink card).  There's also a driver, ibmtr_cs (I
think) which supports the IBM PCMCIA Token Ring Card.

I keep hoping that someone will show up with a driver for the IBM 16/4 Token II
card, as I have located them very cheaply in the used-equipment market.

--
Dave Brown   Austin, TX

 
 
 
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token ring support for slackware or redhat

Post by Jonas Bofja » Mon, 27 Jan 1997 04:00:00



> > Does anyone know where I can find drivers to support a token

> Yes, I would also like to know this.  My environment at work is IBM

I am running a Token-Ring network at home, using Linux on one of the
computers and it works very well. All I did was compiling in support
in the kernel (kernel version 2 has it already, 1.2 requires a patch).
Just answer Yes to the Token Ring question.


 
 
 
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1. token ring token ring token ring

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

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