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Hardware requirements

2. Hardware requirements

Make sure that you have a Token Ring card that is supported from the list below. Many PCI,ISA and even the odd MCA cards are now supported. Check http://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. PCI Token Ring Adapter; PCI Wake on Lan Token Ring Adapter; 16/4 Token Ring PCI Adapter 2, Wake on Lan, and Wake on Lan Special; High Speed 100/16/4 Token Ring Adapter, Token Ring 16/4 Management Adapter.

  • Cardbus. 16/4 Token Ring Adapter

  • LanStreamer. PCI: Auto LanStreamer, Triple Lanstreamer; MCA: LanStreamer MC16, Lanstreamer MC32, AutoLanstreamer MC32, Dual Lanstreamer MC32

  • ISA. Auto 16/4 Token Ring Adapter, 16/4 Token Ring Adapter, Turbo 16/4 Token Ring Adapter, Auto Wake Token Ring Adapter.

  • PCMCIA. Turbo 16/4 PC Card, Turbo 16/4 PC Card 2, Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter, 16/4 Credit Card Adapter, 16/4 Credit Card Adapter II

  • Tropic MCA. 16/4 Token Ring Adapter/A, Auto 16/4 Token Ring Adapter

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

  • 53-05 Smart Mk4 PCI Adapter (low profile)

  • 31-40 Rapidfire 3140V2 16/4 PCI Adapter

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:

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.