Re: IBM 16/4 TK card

[Mike Eckhoff <bert@willy.wsc.edu>]

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Marco Shaw wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the IBM 16/4 TK card, shouldn't I see the
> lights flashing on the card when the computer boots?  I'm trying to setup an
> IBM card on RH 5.0 without success.
> 
> The lights don't flash when booting, and my /var/log/messages seems to
> complain about not finding the 'tr0' module.  (I'm at work so sorry I can't
> include the exact message.)  I don't understand why it's trying to find
> 'tr0' because I thought it should be loading the module 'imbtr'?

It depends.  If it is a Turbo or an Auto adapter, I think the cards are
dead in the watter (or close to it) if you don't use lanaid or have a good
bios to configure them.

Try booting lanaid if it is one of these cards, configure it, and it
should go into 'Enabled' mode.  Most likely it's currently disabled.

Mike

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