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Linux Token Ring Support Bringing Down Corporate Nets?
"My company runs Token Ring at the office (puke!) I got drivers from the card manufacturer (Madge), and I'd been happily churning along. Then last week, we started seeing a bunch of errors on the network. These errors would bring everyone on the ring down. After a week of this kinda stuff, they eventually isolated it to me.
Reboot the laptop into Windows and the network card works just fine and they don't see any ring errors. Reboot into linux, and suddenly they start seeing ring errors. I don't really grok token ring, so I'm not entirely certain that I know exactly what the problem is. But, whenever I brought the token ring on line under linux, they saw ring errors, which eventually (as I understand it) would bring down the entire ring. Switch cards (same model) and it continues to happen. It looked to me (and the network analysts) that the Linux driver was causing the problem.
I tried switching to an IBM token ring card, but there's a bug and I hadn't patched for this. The people with the fluke would not wait around while I tried to figure this out. I didn't have any other token ring cards that I could try.
In the end, I agreed not to boot into Linux unless I went into the conference room (which is one of the only rooms in the building with ethernet ports). How should I have done this differently so that using Linux would have been a more positive experience for my company?"
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Fuck All TRollS!
FucK all SPorkS!!
Allah says: Linux is satan and must be destroyed.
Especially if you use token ring.
Where do you work UPS???
So far Slashdot has been unaffected by the layoffs (VA owns Slashdot too in case you live in a box).
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Hey, fuck you you arrogant prick. What do I care who employs your fat ass? Why are you making light of an important journalistic tradition... namely pointing out situations where your affiliations might bias your writing? WHY DO YOU SMELL LIKE FISH STICKS?!?
So, yes. I am in a box. Now I will put you in a box. A large box, all duct taped up. Then I will let you and your box become damp with the blessed rainwater. THEN I WILL KICK THIS BOX UNTIL MY BOOT IMPACTS YOUR FAT FACE!!! All doe-eyed and sad from the face kicking, you might pause to weep. I would then redouble my efforts AND KICK YOUR BLUBBER PUSS WITH BOTH FEET!
Learn this lesson well! Use what I have taught for Good, not Evil!!!
are to blame. oh, you said "token". Nevermind.
Time and time again, I've said to people, don't let the "special kids" post to Slashdot. And did they listen? Well, just look around ..
or maybe MS would get slammed because:
1) they destroyed America's free market for software;
2) there is no source code available so people could fix the driver.
I'd be suprised if this wasn't fixed pretty fast. That's the great thing about Linux...one of the things that always pissed me off about dealing with MS was various NT bugs that would just sit for years at a time.
Treatment, not tyranny. End the drug war and free our American POWs.
See my user info for links.
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You think that's funny? You think that's a joke? You think people might find you amusing?
Oh, leave him alone, the poor boy. He gets plenty of love from his mother.
On Monday everyone buy stuff! Spread the word on IRC, on Instant Message, on the phone, on Usenet, on any other newsgroups. Spread the word by phone, by word of mouth. EVERYONE buy stuff tomorrow. Buy a book, buy computer equipment, buy stuff!!!
-- "You used your dictaphone to post, didn't you?"
Inter .. what? You mean they fuck? Hot damn!
Shut your mouth and clean it with Domestos, 'egg troll'.
I think you should improve your punctuation, grammar and overall presentation of your posts before making such accusations.
Only if you hold his nose and repeatedly punch him in the jaw. Otherwise, no.
Why .. why you .. fettled nincompoop! I'm warning you, sonny, any more of that abuse out of you and I'll report you to the proper authorities.
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