On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> 1. You refer to an "NE2000" card. Presumably you're aware that those
> normally don't work in an XT as they require an AT style connector
> and the similar NE1000 card with its XT style connector has to be
> used instead.
Firstly, 16-bit cards can work in 8-bit slots. I've used 16-bit network
cards, video cards, IDE cards (on a 486 board), etc in 8-bit slots without
problems.
> 2. Several people refer to reading from the ROM to positively ID the
> card. My network consists entirely of NE1000 and NE2000 cards,
> none of which have any ROM on board, and all are working fine. As
> a result, I would consider ANY code that relies on the contents of
> those non-existant ROMs to be highly suspect.
The 'ROM' is the ROM on the card. ie. the part of the card that holds
information such as the ethernet address, and the protocol information for
sending an ethernet frame.
Davey
