'Fraid so, the machines are state of the art (in the late 80's!!), passive
back plane board. Basically the entire PC sits on a single ISA board, and
you have a blank ISA backplane connecting all other card to it. Put it this
way, I have got an ISA video card!!!
And if you're wondering why I don't bin it, I have four of these devices. If
I can get them working, I intend to do alot of experimenting with multi
processor configurations!! Four P150's in a Linux environment should be
worth seeing!!
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Recommendations for network cards
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Thanks to my fruitless exploits in getting my unidentifiable NIC's to
work,
> > I am now in the market to purchase some new NIC's. Can anyone recommend
any
> > 10baseT ISA NIC's that are reasonably easy to set up in Linux, IE not
> > Windows specific? Oh, and cheap must be the prime consideration. I'll be
> > buying from the UK.
> >
> Kingston DEC-based 10 mb combo ISA cards work just fine.
> They're recognized as "tulip" cards. The one I bought I got
> on sale for like $15 here in the US. It's single-speed, 10
> Mb. This card will work with either coax or twisted-pair
> ethernet. I don't recall if it was ISA or PC. Does it HAVE
> to be ISA??????
>
