Token-Ring mini-HOWTO

Mike Phillips

mikep@linuxtr.net

Tom Gall

tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com

Mike Eckhoff

Revision History
Revision 5.00 2002-01-23 Revised by: mlp
Updated to reflect the current state of Token Ring with Linux
Revision 4.3 29 March 2000 Revised by: tg
Brought up to date.
Revision 4.1 7 January 1998 Revised by: me
v4.1 released by Mike

This howto is designed to help you get up and running using a Token Ring adaptor to access the network. Generally speaking Section 3 will tell you which driver you need based on the adaptor card you have.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Special Thanks
1.2. Copyright Information
1.3. Disclaimer
1.4. New Versions
1.5. Credits
1.6. Feedback
2. Hardware requirements
3. Which driver should I use?
3.1. Drivers/Adapter Specifics
4. Known problems
5. VMWare and Token Ring
6. Commonly asked Questions
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. 0. PREAMBLE
A.2. 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. 2. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. 4. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. 8. TRANSLATION
A.10. 9. TERMINATION
A.11. 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE