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RH 4.1 and IBM Token Ring
Ok, so there's this circus gorilla, this nun, this priest, and this
rabbi, and they all walk into a bar.
The priest goes up to the bartender and the bartender goes "what's a
matta you?"
and the priest goes:
"well, ya see my son, it's like this: I installed redhat 4.1 on my
computer, and I compiled token ring support into my kernel (2.0.27), and
I used the GUI
Metro-X control panel Network Manager (sic) to add support for both an
ethernet and token ring cards, with the ethernet set to inactive and the
token ring set to active. So the pope says I gotta run Windows 95 on my
other partition because it's his computer, so I gotta worry about that
too. The first token card I put in works beautifully under Linux, which
has no problem detecting it. But it don't work under Win 95, so I gots
to switch to an older, slightly shittier card, which works fine under
Win 95, but which causes me some heartache under Linux. When I boot
into Linux with this card, Linux detects it (This is from the dmesg:
tr0: ISA adapter found using IRQ7, PIOaddr a20
tr0: Hardware address:00:03:0F:80:34:5C)
Hallelujah!
But then it immediately starts spouting this message to all consoles
every three seconds, continually flooding the screen, as if there were
some sort of daemon inside my computer!
tr0: unknown command 21 in arb
What to do? What to do? The token ring mini-how-to is dreadfully old
and doesn't address this situation.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can gain salvation under Linux again?"
And the rabbi opens his mouth and says:
<insert pithy advice here>
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