Yes, PCI are mostly 100 cards, but there is no reason not to put in a 10/100
switch or hub. Even cable or DSL is no where near 10mbps, let alone
100mbps, so there is no slow down for the Internet caused by using 10mbps
cards. I have used 3c905's in STN boxes, but alone with another card. It
would then be simple to put in one ISA NE2000 clone card to face the
Internet and one 3c905 to face the internal network.
But that doesn't solve the problem of trying to use a new motherboard that
doesn't have an ISA slots...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 9:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [STN] Realtek8139
Arnie,
Good reply!
I am thinking about upgrading my network to 100-base-t (& getting rid of
my coax backbone!) now that I have cable. Unfortunately, (it would
seem) all 100-base-t cards are PCI - so I would have to do an upgrade to
a PCI based system.
Most of the PCI stuff I have seen is auto-set (like you said), but it
would be interesting if you could "fix" the setting for a slot.
I will have to look into this myself.
Jim
Arnie Rothenbaum wrote:
> This may not apply to Compaq Deskpro but with most clone motherboards,
> the IRQ for the PCI card is inherited by the IRQ assigned to the PCI
> slot. Is there a way to get into the BIOS (Compaq F10) and assign a
> unique IRQ to the slot rather than accepting the default of AUTO (which
> may be the assignment, as it is in most clones).
>
> Also, when you configure STN, have you tried AUTO on the IRQ. This is a
> must with the ISA 3Com 3C509B NIC. If you set STN with the IRQ that the
> 3C509B is set to (via the 3c5x9cfg.exe), STN doesn't recognize the
> card. It must be set to AUTO. Maybe this is the case with your setup?
>
> Good Luck,
> Arnie
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I have bought STN and want to configure a Compaq Deskpro with two
> > > Realtek 8139 NICs. In whatever way I build the disk I cant get it to
> > > work.
> > >
> > > The configdisk that comes with the NICs cant be used to change the
IRQ.
> > > Everything is auto. They both work at IRQ11 with different i/o mem
> > > (0x1400 and 0x1800)
> > >
> > > I there someone who knows the answer?
> >
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