I can agree with your 3C503 assessment, Brian..
I just pulled the last of my 503's out of my linux box at home this weekend.
In my experience with STN I've found that ALL the 'tested' cards, and most
of the 'not-tested' cards (and drivers) seem to work as advertised, hence my
comment.
Will they co-exist? They seem to just fine assuming that you've not
configured resources to step on each other and also assuming you've not
built your STN package so big as to not fit on a 1.44 floppy. I've never
fooled with the 'bigger' floppies (I'm not referring to 5.25 1.2 meg
floppies either), so I can't talk to that.
My suggestion would be if you are going to install two NICs in an STN box,
make them the same type of NIC, or at least using the same driver. Saves on
disk space and is easier to troubleshoot.
With the exception of PnP-only cards, nearly all the cards I've fooled with
work equally well. If I were to pick a favorite I'd still select the SMC
Ultra. It's readily available and works well.. Yes, you need to build a DOS
disk to configure them... But that's not so difficult. I used the DOS
emulator on my Caldera 2.3 linux box to do that. Failing that, I'd go with
the Tulip driver cards. Just because they seem to be the most refined
drivers around and work with so many type cards on the market...
At any rate.. I didn't want to come off sounding flip, but really, I
haven't found any conflicts if you stick to the list John's built in...
HopeItHelps, tho your mileage may vary...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian rom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ShareTheNet] hardware address for common net cards
>
>
> great work john---- more specific
> I was just looking for some good references
> I am familiar with the share the net program
> just not familiar with the list of supported nic cards
> some cards are a pain to get working
> I used up all of my old 3com 3c503 nics
> these cards are easy to configure with the share the net program
> these cards have jumpers so the base i/0 addresses (eth0=
> 0x300 irq 5 )
> and (eth1=0x310 irq 9) are easy to select on the cards and in
> the share
> the net program and 2 of these card run together with little
> conflict so
> with this maybe the share the net listers would share a
> little with each other.
> more specifically
> some recommended configurations with combo's of
> different cards and their configs (base i/o addresses and irq's)
> configs that worked
> like intel ether express cards ( configs)
> 3com 3c90x cards and the configs that work.
> these are the things that help.
>
> Brian
> john burton wrote:
> > Uhm...
> >
> > There's a whole batch of 'em, Brian...
> >
> > Take a look at STN's proggie and look at 'em all...
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brian rom [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 1:11
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [ShareTheNet] hardware address for common net cards
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have a list of net cards and base i/0 addresses
> plus irq's
> > for the majority brand of cards that work with share the net
> >
> > Brian Rom
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