Keith Matthews wrote: > > HyperNews notification of new message. See: > http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/updates/16/1.html > > Gidday Dave and others, > > I have been trying to get PCMCIA 3.0.7 to work on my Thinkpad 380Z. I > have Installed redhat 5.2 at kernel level 2.0.36 redhat release 3. I > have comiled a great kernel which works fine, and comiled and installed > PCMCIA-cs 3.0.7 on top. it works fine with my IBM Eth Adapt II card. > > However, I am really wanting to add the machine to my token ring > network. I have tried an IBM T/R II and an IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring > card and neither seem to insert onto the ring. > > I have checked /var/log/messages and it shows that the cards are > recognised by pcmcia-cs and the ./network start tr0 is run with no > result. > > If I do an lsmod, it shows that ibmtr_cs.o module has been loaded and is > running. > .... > > If I can get this working I can use the same network setup for office & > home with dhcp. > Keith, since you mention dhcp: did you configure all those network options that can be set in your /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file, for example BOOTP, IPADR, NETMASK, NETWORK, BROADCAST, GATEWAY, DOMAIN, DNS_1, DNS_2, DNS_3 etc. to see if it works with a "manual" configuration, before you go on to use dhcp? Talking about options: I don't see any dhcp option in my PCMCIA-HOWTO file (as of pcmcia-3.0.4), only a BOOTP option. In this same HowTo file I read: o The driver used by the IBM and 3Com token ring adapters seems to behave very badly if the cards are not connected to a ring when they get initialized. Always connect these cards to the net before they are powered up. This driver also requires free IO ports in the range of 0xa20-0xa27. On some systems, the automatic IO port conflict checker will incorrectly determine that this port range is unavailable. In that case, the port check can be disabled by loading the pcmcia_core module with probe_io=0. So, a RTFM might give you some more insights. Good luck! Chris
