7 Apr
2006
7 Apr
'06
4:48 p.m.
Doc wrote...
A short word here - IBM-branded PCI token ring
adapters work
out-of-the-box in Linux, with the olympic driver.
Not what I found. "IBM
Branded" could mean one of several different
families, and only certain models of certain families are supported. In
addition, I found some adapters that were supported at one time, but are
certainly not supported on more current releases (the drivers certainly
wouldn't compile as is, and needed a severe amount of handwork to bring them
up to date). Not to mention token ring support in more recent linux kernels
has been all but dropped, the token ring project hasn't been updated in
ages... etc. (2003?).
Olicom's PCMCIA adapters didn't work at all
in Linux through v2.2 and
v2.4. Some ISA adapters work in some systems, but configuration is a
nightmare.
Yeah, they did. I hacked up an old version of the olicom drivers to make
it
work on my kernel. Yes, it was a complete nightmare.
Example... a Madge 16/4 card.... You'd think this was just one card. Nope.
There are subtle variations in the card, some are supported and some aren't.
Jay