[linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com]

Actually, Redhat does indeed have a RPM for the latest pcmcia driver.  Look
under ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.5-22.i386.rpm.
There also kernel updates in that directory if you want them.  I have a 770
running RedHat 6.0  (linux kernel 2.2.5-22) with these drivers installed and my
Token Ring works fine.




HDAASCH@de.ibm.com on 06/25/99 09:01:52 AM

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Hi MAGOWAN,

my IBM PCMCIA Turbo 16/4 Token Ring Card is working fine.
But it was a really hard job...  ;-))


I am running SuSE Linux 6.1 on the 770X, but I guess problems are the same.
Obviously kernel 2.2.7 is recommended (available as *.rpm). I can't say if
your RedHat 2.2.5 is working. Besides that I had to use pcmcia package
3.0.12. There's a new driver included so you have to use this package.
Otherwise your card won't work. May be there's already an update available
from RedHat. If not, try this one...

ftp://csb.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/pcmcia-cs-3.0.12.tar.gz

May be first make the pcmcia package. For help look at the pcmcia-howto. I
had to uninstall the SuSE pcmcia support before.


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MAGOWAN@uk.ibm.com on 25.06.99 13:14:19

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Hi,
I've got a 770X and have visited Bill's page so thanks for enabling me to
get my Xserver working.

I've visited the web pages I could find related to the 770X and setting up
a PCMCIA Token Ring Card but I still haven't been able to get the Token
ring working. I haven't tried recompiling the kernel but I don't really
want to yet, I'd rather get a working system if possible before I cause
more problems :-)

Anyway I am running RedHat 6 with kernel 2.2.5-15 and pcmcia 2.2.5-15
My card is an IBM PCMCIA Turbo 16/4 Token Ring Card

The error I keep getting happens when booting.

Delaying tr0 initialisation.             FAILED
::
::
Sarting NFS statd                  OK
Starting NFS quotas: tr0: Initial interrupt: 16 Mbps, shared RAM base
000d8000
tr0:open failed: ret_code = 34, retrying
tr0:open failed: ret_code = 34, retrying
tr0:open failed: ret_code = 34, retrying
tr0:open failed: ret_code = 34, retrying
tr0:open failed: ret_code = 34, retrying

etc..

I'm not that familiar with hacking around and setting up Linux, I seemed to
have had an easy time of setting it up until now! Mind you this is the
first laptop I've tried to set up.

Any suggestions appreciated,

Thanks,
     James