Can anyone recommend a source of, say, "PCI NE2000 clone" cards? I'm
potentially looking at building a number of STN boxes, and would prefer to
find a source of inexpensive, reliable, "STN-compatible" cards.
Steve Stroh
At 21:49 6/13/99 -0700, John Lombardo wrote:
>I have actually gotten each of the cards listed in the "Tested Drivers"
>section to work. The tricks to remember are:
>1) Plug and Pray won't work -- so don't try.
>2) PCI cards almost always work flawlessly -- as long as you have the right
>driver.
>3) Don't give the 3com drivers any information. Just leave the base address
>blank and make the IRQ AutoIRQ. The driver will figure itself out.
>
>Regards,
>John
>
>>
>>
>> I use 3C509's in my STN box. The trick with them is to use the
>> 3C5X9CFG.EXE tool to setup the IRQ and I/O settings and turn OFF Plug
>> and Play on the cards.
>>
>> If your cards are set to Plug and Play, that may be your problem.
>>
>> I haven't tried PCI cards, mostly because my STN box is a 486 with ISA
>> slots.
>>
>> Terry Horton wrote:
>> >
>> > I've got what hopefully will be a quick question.
>> >
>> > I have 2 486 pc's with isa and pci. It seems I cannot get STN 2.1.1 to
>> > work with any card other than an ISA NE2000. I've tried using 3coms
>> > (509 isa, 509b isa , 905 pci , 905b pci) and RealTeks (8029 pci , 8139a
>> > pci). It seems they will not load on boot. I've gone in and loaded the
>> > module manually but could not get it to transfer.
>> >
>> > I'd like to get these computers to use one of the 8139a's as they are
>> > cheap and I have 5 of them. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Culley
>> >
>> > ------------------------------
>> >
>> > I've had exactly the same results. If I use old ISA NE2000 cards in a
>> > vanilla 486 box, STN works flawlessly. I have also tried DLink PCI 530
>> > TX100 and 3COM 3509 cards with no success. Also, I have always set the
>> > jumpers manually before loading STN. Has anyone got any other type of
>> > card to work? In particular, any 100MB PCI card?
>> >
>> > Terry Horton
>> >
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