Re: Any luck with the Madge card?

[Drew Norman <dnorman@cisco.com>]

The box for the card says Smart 16/4 PCI Ringnode:
serial number 59B611  
51-02

It doesn't have BM (MK2) written on the box, but madge assured me that
it is a BM (MK2) card when I called them.





Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
> 
> As Drew Norman said:
> >
> > I got the driver from madge to support their tr card in linux, but when
> > I do an "insmod mtok"  I get that there is no unused adaptor, but I know
> > the adaptor works fine on this box in NT, and I am getting "unknown pci
> > device" when I boot linux.
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck with this card in linux?  It is a Madge PCI
> > card.
> 
> Yes, I am using it in two computers here.
> 
> `insmod mtok`:
> Madge Networks Token-Ring Driver v1.01.01 (00:52:55 Feb 13 1998)
> tr0: Madge Smart 16/4 PCI Ringnode (BM) Mk 2 at PCI bus/dev=0/e
> tr0: The adapter has opened
> 
> Does Madge make a PCI plug-and-play card? PnP might be causing problems. I
> had that problem with a thunderlan ethernet card once.
> 
> --gilbert
> 
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