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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress 16K ? Date: 13 Jul 1996 06:20:45 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4s7f7t$j0t@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <31DFF055.610@osp.nl> <4rtu6d$4in@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.1 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4rtu6d$4in@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>, cnhaan@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Christian Haan) writes: [deleted] >I am also very interested in this subject since i got an unused one >from my company. >Perhaps someone could post the technical details of this card, so that I >could make the necessary changes. > Download the latest setup program from Intel's FTp site, and run it, then set the memory window to 32K, you will probably have to start it at D000. When I used the card I found that the driver has a problem where if it is run at too high a data rate it will sometimes stop functioning, an ifconfig down and ifconfig up will usually get it started again. I used it on a router running a serial PPP link and it was fine, but this was a very light-duty use in my opinion. When I tried to put a DHCP server on that machine it worked once the bootptab file was built, but if I booted all the machines on the net at once I could get the driver to make the machine crash. (presumabably because all the clients wanted DHCP assignments at the same time) Also, Multicast is not supported in the driver, if that is important. (the code doesen't exist)