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Re: Token Ring for Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Russon)
Wed Feb 14 14:12:06 1996

Date: 	Wed, 14 Feb 96 15:54:05
From: Richard Russon <Richard.Russon@ait.co.uk>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, sstamper@bw.brhn.org



Steve Stamper <sstamper@bw.brhn.org> wrote:

> I'm new to LINUX and even newer to this ListServ so please forgive this 
> question if is has already been asked 100 time.  Is there a way of 
> cofiguring LINUX to run on IBM TokenRing?  Someone pointed to a site that 
> dead-ended.  Any help to find drivers would be appreciated.  Thanks

Hi Steve,
    I just checked.  Linux up to version 1.2.13 has no token ring support.
I don't know exactly when support was added to 1.3.* but it was before .41
It works well and no special patches are needed.  I've been using it for a
couple of months without any problems.

Richard

Richard.Russon@ait.co.uk
Henley-on-Thames, England.



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