If you are running a 2.0 distribution of Linux, please jump to the distriubtion specific section of this document. The following is mostly for 1.2 kernels.
Obtain the Token Ring patch from:
ftp://ftp.wayne.esu1.k12.ne.us/pub/Linux/Token-Ring/TokenRing.patch-1.2.0.gz
Obtain the NetTools patched source from:
ftp://ftp.wayne.esu1.k12.ne.us/pub/Linux/Token-Ring/net-tools-1.2.0.patched.tar.gz
Create a directory for the patches (such as /usr/src/patches
)
and place the patches there.
mkdir /usr/src/patches central directory for patch storage
mkdir /usr/src/patches/token place TokenRing patch here