Thanks to Tariq, Gilbert, and everyone else who responded
I have an IBM 16/4 which I took out of pnp mode and it gets along fine with
my desktop but not with my little pentium box
I discovered the linuxtr project but they don't support the 3c339 PCI cards
of which I have 60 new in the box at work. I offered to send them a couple so
they could provide support in the future.
I'll order a Madge card some time this week.
Once again thanks to everyone who responded - ethereal support is
wonderful, especially when compared to Cinco Networks after their acquisition
by NAI ... price goes up and the voice mail box I left unanswered questions
in changed every few weeks.
Next spring when ethereal has a little more meat on its bones I'll do a
talk for our linux users group about it ... what did Linus say? "World
domination and fast." Theres no questions that'll happen with ethereal.
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 03:41:27AM -0500, ch.tronche@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The olicom PCI card works very well too. It supports promiscuous mode
> > (at least the OC-3137 I'm using). You've to download the kernel patch
> > from Olicom's web site and recompile it with the kernel. I don't know
> > for the Madge, but with the Olicom ones, the device, strangely enough,
> > is called "eth". So I've a few boxes with eth0 and eth1, eth0 being a
> > token ring adapter and eth1 an Ethernet one...
>
> Rogier Wolf (sp?) didn't like how the "tr" device naming worked in
> Linux 2.0. (It was very ibmtr-specific).
> This changed in Linux 2.2.; your Olicom TR NICs should now use "tr"
> device names automatically.
>
> The Linux Token-Ring project has a nice website at http://www.linuxtr.net/
> They have a list of which cards work with Linux.
>
> --gilbert
