I've got a multi-homed RH6.0 box with both Ethernet and Token-Ring installed.
The TR card is a Madge PCI Smart 16/4 Ringnode. Madge actually has the module
based linux drivers for it posted onto their website. (thumbs up to Madge for
that :)
You still have to compile in TR support in your kernel before you can get the
drivers to function.
I haven't tried using Ethereal on TR though, so I can't say what the decodes
would look like...
What kind of IBM TR card are you using? I've had success in getting the Auto
16/4 ISA boards to work under Linux, but you've got to take the card out of PnP
mode using the config software (LANAID??) to lock the board to specific
resource settings (MEM, IRQ, I/O, etc)
If memory serves, the latest kernels do have native support for the IBM PCI TR
boards. I'm running 2.2.10 and I think I remember an IBM PCI TR option when I
was configuring it.
Hope this helps.
Tariq Rahman
trahman@xxxxxxxxxx
puzzled <puzzled@xxxxxxxx> on 09/11/99 11:16:23 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
cc: (bcc: Tariq Rahman/BUTLER)
Subject: [ethereal-users] Best token ring card for ethereal?
I have a linux box that totally disagrees with the IBM 16/4 card that I
normally use. I
haven't needed to do any sniffing on token ring yet so the 16/4 has been fine
but that will
change soon. Can someone recommend a token ring card that works well with
redhat 6.0? I can
use PCI or ISA and I am not too price sensitive. Please tell me there is a 3com
product that
fits the bill. I've looked at the mini howto that is out there but it looks
like support for
that one died about the time redhat 4.1 came out :-(
