On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 06:27:19AM -0600, Tom Poe wrote:
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> Hi,
> Has anyone has success using Ethereal with the IBM PCI Token Ring
> adapter? I don't think that this is a Ethereal problem, but more a
> problem with the driver for this adapter. The "olympic" driver seems to
> support promiscuous mode, but all I seem to capture are broadcast,
> multicast, and frames directed to the machine running Ethereal. I've
> tweaked the olympic code based on Lanstreamer technical interface
> document I've got, but so far no luck. The document describes a
> password to use to turn on the promiscuous mode, but when I've added
> these modifications it still doesn't work.
> Thanks for any help with this,
> Tom
Take a look at www.linuxtr.net. They have a mailing list where
the Linux TR device driver writers hang out.
Are you sure it's appropriate to use the Lanstreamer tech reference
for the olympic driver? They are different cards (of course, I don't
know *how* different they are, since an olypmic tech reference
hasn't been made public (but the linuxtr guys have one)).
As in the other e-mailed response, be sure to check that you're
on a shared-media token-ring MAU (i.e., "hub"), not a token-ring switch.
--gilbert
