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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!youngman.demon.co.uk From: jeremy@youngman.demon.co.uk (Jeremy Youngman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI v201 and Token Ring card (SMC8115T) various problems Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 19:44:23 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: <823203925.4234@youngman.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: youngman.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: youngman.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hi, I'm looking for anybody who is successfully running BSDI v201 (or similar) and using a Token-Ring card. We are running BSDI v201 with an SMC 8115T on a Compaq PC, using memory address 0x280 and IRQ 15. It seems to run okay most of the time, however we've experienced the following: 1) Sometimes we've tried inserting into the ring and got an error "te0: mac1: removed from ring 0x2". Apparently this could be because the card is checking for a duplicate of its MAC address before its adapter is fully open - so it sees itself (it seems this can happen with some cards on pentiums where they run too fast) 2) We've also had problems where our card has refused to co-operate in a Ring Poll when a remote management station was trying to synch the ring (okay, i'll admit it, i'm more of a unix & tcp/ip person than a token-ring freak so I'm a bit hazy on this bit). It seems our problem lies with one of: - the particular token-ring card - the chipset on the brand of cards we are using - the microcode on the cards we are using - the device driver on the BSDI s/ware we are using - our IRQ/DMA settings - err, who knows? Any advice would be appreciated, by email if possible as I'm in a hurry to fix this and tend to check email more often than newsgroups. TIA,