Subject: Re: IBM Token Ring :)
To: Onno van der Linden <o.vd.linden@quicknet.nl>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/02/2005 12:36:14
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:11:11PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > Hello Mailing List,
> > 
> > I recently purchased a few ISA Token Ring Cards from IBM (IBM Auto 16/4)
> > 
> > dmesg shows this:
> > isapnp0: read port 0x20b
> > isapnp: No current device for tag, card 1
> > tr2 at isapnp0 port 0xa20/4 mem 0xdc000/16384,0xda000/8192 irq 11
> > tr2: IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Ad IBM Auto 16/4 T
> > tr2: cfg fast path returned: 0x06
> 
> 0x06 means "Options missing, not valid, or incompatible".
> I've seen that when somehow the shared ram configuration
> had conflicts with other cards in the computer
> 
> I haven't looked at token-ring in ages. You might want to get 
> (if don't already have them) the IBM token-ring configuration
> stuff. It used to be on one or two floppies.
> 
> I also don't know what's in you kernel config file. Throw
> out the PnP stuff and only keep one tr0 line. Reconfigure
> the card with the ibm configuration software.
> 
> Hope this helps a little,
> 
> Onno
> 

Hello Onno,

yes, the PnP stuff doesn't worked at all. So I downloaded the LANAID Program
from IBM from
here:
http://www.networking.ibm.com/support/code.nsf/trautoisacode?OpenView&ExpandView
and disabled the PnP. Now, it works fine. Thank you very much.

Regards, Zafer.