Welcome to the Linux Token Ring mini-howto. We hope you find the information
contained within helpful.
If you have any problems with the drivers that are not talked about in
this howto, feel free to email me at <mikep@linuxtrnet>.
You may also wish to join the Linux on Token Ring Listserv
by mailing <majordomo@linuxtr.net> with the body containing:
The latest and greatest information, drivers, patches, bug fixes, etc, etc
can always be found at the
Linux Token Project site.
Thanks to Mark Swanson, Peter De Schrijver, David Morris, Paul Norton
and everyone else who has contributed to the Token Ring code
and drivers over the years.
Thanks also to the many people and companies who have provided
hardware and technical documents to enable the drivers to be
written in the first place.
Special Thanks to Mike Eckhoff the originator of this HOWTO, and Tom Gall
for the previous version, and to Matthew Marsh for hosting
the website and mailing list!
And, finally, thanks to all to subscribers to the linux-tr mailing list who
have provided support, feedback, testing and thanks over the years. It
wouldn't have been worth it without your continued support and gratitude.
This documument is copyright (c) 1995-1998 by Michael Eckhoff,
copyright(c) 2000 by Tom Gall and copyright (c) 2001 by Mike
Phillips.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation, with no Invariant sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
and with no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in
Appendix A
If you have any question, please contact
<linux-howto@linuxdoc.org>
No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk.
As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors
and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system.
Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely,
the authors do not take any responsibility for that.
All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless
specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document
should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark
or service mark.
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
endorsements.
You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system
before major installation and backups at regular intervals.
The latest version of this document can always be found at
Linux Token Ring Project
under the Documentation section.
The latest version of this HOWTO will always be made available on
the Linux Token Ring Project website, in a variety of formats:
In this version I have the pleasure of acknowleding:
IBM for providing hardware,
technical documentation and technical support when the tech docs
didn't quite seem enough.
Madge for providing their hardware to test with.
3Com for proving the technical documents to
allow the 3c359 driver to be developed.
Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without your
submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please send
your additions, comments and criticisms to the following email
address: <mikep@linuxtr.net>