Re: Token-Ring timeout
Ph. Marek (marek@bmlv.gv.at)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:24:31 +0100
>I maintain a box at my work. It's used for educational purposes. It's
>a i486 IBM MCA Server with 16MB RAM and 1052MB HDD. It has a MCA
>token-ring card. Itruns on Slackware 3.6. When students login to the
>box, it freeses on them sends continuous message to the Admin's
>screen. This is the message:
>
>tr0: Arrg. Transmitter busy.
>tr0: Arrg. Transmitter busy.
>tr0: Arrg. Transmitter busy.
>...
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
I don't know about the MCA card, but with the ISA card's that means
(according to the Tokenring-howto & my personal knowledge) that the card is
misconfigured, that is, the jumpers should be set to other values as it
seems to conflict with some other device.
maybe it's something alike?
regards,
Phil
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