2. Hardware requirements

Make sure that you have a Token Ring card that is supported from the list below. Many PCI and ISA cards are now supported. Check www.linuxtr.net for the latest information.

Cards that are reported to work:

3COM

• 3C389 PCMCIA
• 3C619, 3C619B or 3C619C Token Link
• 3C319 Velocity ISA
• 3C359 Velocity XL - PCI
• 3C339 Velocity PCI

IBM

• PCI Token Ring Adaptor
• PCI Wake on Lan Token Ring Adaptor
• 16/4 Token Ring PCI Adaptor 2, Wake On Lan, and Wake on Lan Special
• High Speed 100/16/4 Token Ring
• Turbo 16/4 ISA adapter**
• Token Ring Auto 16/4 ISA adapter
• Token Ring Auto 16/4 adapter /A
• Token Ring 16/4 adapter /A
• Token Ring adapter /A
• Token Ring adapter II (4 Megabit only)
• 16/4 ISA Token Ring card (16bit)
• 16/4 ISA Token Ring card (8bit)
• PCI LANStreamer (under development)
• PCMCIA - Turbo 16/4
• PCMCIA - 16/4

Olicom

• RapidFire 3139, 3140, 3141, and 3540
• OC 3136
• OC 3137
• OC 3118
• OC 3129

Madge

• 51-02 Smart 16/4 PCI
• 20-03 16/4 Cardbus Adapter Mk2
• 51-04 Smart 16/4 PCI Ringnode Mk3
• 51-09 Smart 16/4 Fiber PCI Ringnode
• 51-07 Smart 100/16/4 PCI-HS Ringnode
• 51-05 Smart 100/16/4 PCI Ringnode
• 20-01 Smart 16/4 PCMCIA
• 60-07 Presto PCI 2000
• 60-06 Presto PCI Plus
• 60-05 Presto PCI

SysKonnect

• TR4/16(+) SK-4190 ISA
• TR4/16(+) SK-4590 PCI
• TR4/16(+) SK-4591 PCI

SMC

• Tokencard Elite (8115T)
• Tokencard Elite/A MCA (8115T/A)

Intel

• TokenExpress PRO
• TokenExpress 16/4

Cards that may cause problems:

IBM Turbo 16/4 ISA adapter

This adapter will, in fact, work fine with the Linux token ring driver. However, you MUST run the card in Auto 16/4 compatability mode. The simplest way to set this is to use the LANAID disks sent with the card and run the command:

LANAIDC /FAST=AUTO16
       

You should then use LANAIDC or LANAID to configure the card according to documentation.

Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter II

This adapter will NOT work. Do not confuse this card with the IBM Token Ring adapter II (4mbit) which does. It is a DMA/Busmaster adapter for ISA.

3Com TokenLink Velocity ISA

You may or may not get this one to work. I have had reports of people running it without problems, and others who get errors left and right.