Token ring card diffuculties
Please forgive me if this is posted twice, but my ISP's e-mail server was
down yesterday, so I'm not sure if it made it.
I recently installed a token ring card in my debian system (in addition to
my ethernet card). To do this, I added the line:
ibmtr
to my /etc/modules file. Afterwards, the system has displayed the following
during bootup:
tr0: ISA 16/4 Adapter/II found using irq 7, PIOaddr a24, 16K shared RAM.
tr0: Hardware address : 10:00:5A:74:14:65
It seems that the O/S is loading the token ring module and is able to see
the card, but when I use ifconfig to assign an IP address (or make the card
active using ifconfig tr0 up), the process that is running ifconfig hangs.
This is what I get when I do ifconfig -a:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:1B:48:CD:17
inet addr:192.168.64.18 Bcast:192.168.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x360
tr0 Link encap:16/4 Mbps TR HWaddr 10:00:5A:74:14:65
inet addr:0.0.0.0 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
BROADCAST MTU:2000 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Interrupt:7 Base address:0xa24
The other interface (my ethernet card) is working fine. If someone has a
suggestion about how to get this thing up and running, I'd sure like to hear
it. I'm stumped!
Michael D. Cencula
mcencula@columbus.rr.com
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