Dear all,
as usual excellent answers... Thomas Blinn politely suggests that
noone in Compaq is ever going to guarantee any clone will work but
that I could "try and see". Apparently not all clones have properly
reverse engineered the original tulip design hence the software might
eventually ask for something which the card might barf on. On the
other hand Kurt Ludwig mentioned that early rev NetGear FA310TX cards
work but later ones don't. By Murphy's I only have later revs of both
NetGear and Kingston cards.
On this last point I can explain why: both early Kingston KNE100TX and
FA310TX cards used Digital chips - the later ones use Intel chips
which, for some unknown reason, require a different driver. This I
know from the *BSD and Linux world plus the NT world.
BTW: I forgot to explain why I needed to know... Compaq delivered a
DS20E with 4.0F and an 'ee' card (i.e. EtherExpress) which the system
refuses to see. I gather it is supported by 4.0G so I cannot
understand why they shipped it with my DS20E when I requested
4.0F-compatibility for everything. It truly drives me up a wall given
I took the pain of asking.
Arrigo
P.S. I was also corrected by Kris Chandrasekhar on the patent
infringement: Intel bought the chip fabs, Cabletron bought the
networking independently.
Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 01:46:48 NZDT