<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Token-Ring mini-HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >Token-Ring mini-HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Mike Phillips</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > mikep@linuxtr.net<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN10" >Tom Gall</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN16" >Mike Eckhoff</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 5.00</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-01-23</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: mlp</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Updated to reflect the current state of Token Ring with Linux</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 4.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >29 March 2000</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: tg</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Brought up to date.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 4.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >7 January 1998</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: me</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >v4.1 released by Mike</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN35" ></A ><P ></P ><P > 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. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#THANKS" >Special Thanks</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright Information</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS" >New Versions</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#CREDITS" >Credits</A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK" >Feedback</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="hardware.html" >Hardware requirements</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="drivers.html" >Which driver should I use?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="drivers.html#DRIVERSSPECIFICS" >Drivers/Adapter Specifics</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="problemns.html" >Known problems</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="vmware.html" >VMWare and Token Ring</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="qanda.html" >Commonly asked Questions</A ></DT ><DT >A. <A HREF="fdl.html" >GNU Free Documentation License</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >A.1. <A HREF="fdl-preamble.html" >0. PREAMBLE</A ></DT ><DT >A.2. <A HREF="fdl-section1.html" >1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</A ></DT ><DT >A.3. <A HREF="fdl-section2.html" >2. VERBATIM COPYING</A ></DT ><DT >A.4. <A HREF="fdl-section3.html" >3. COPYING IN QUANTITY</A ></DT ><DT >A.5. <A HREF="fdl-section4.html" >4. MODIFICATIONS</A ></DT ><DT >A.6. <A HREF="fdl-section5.html" >5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS</A ></DT ><DT >A.7. <A HREF="fdl-section6.html" >6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</A ></DT ><DT >A.8. <A HREF="fdl-section7.html" >7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS</A ></DT ><DT >A.9. <A HREF="fdl-section8.html" >8. TRANSLATION</A ></DT ><DT >A.10. <A HREF="fdl-section9.html" >9. TERMINATION</A ></DT ><DT >A.11. <A HREF="fdl-section10.html" >10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >