beach@DDNUVAX.AF.MIL (darrel beach) (10/02/90)
Another plea for info... Can anyone point me to drivers, software, vendors to let me run TCP/IP on PCs which have a DEPCA (Digitals Ethernet PC bus Adapter) cards. Packet drivers compatible with NCSA, KA9Q, or even a commercial package would be appreciated. Thanx in advance... Darrel Beach
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (10/02/90)
In article <CMM.0.88.654810935.beach@ddnuvax.af.mil> beach@DDNUVAX.AF.MIL (darrel beach) writes:
Can anyone point me to drivers, software, vendors to let me run
TCP/IP on PCs which have a DEPCA (Digitals Ethernet PC bus Adapter)
cards. Packet drivers compatible with NCSA, KA9Q, or even a commercial
package would be appreciated.
Not yet, but the picture is coming into focus. We've gone from
"Digital refuses to release programming information" (that was just a
rumor) to "How may I help get you the information you need to write a
packet driver?"
Maybe in a couple of months...
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I'm posting to the list because this question gets asked awfully frequently: DEC's PCSA and DECNet/DOS products currently use a hardware-independent interface-sharing driver spec called "DLL". It is documented in the VaxMate Tech Ref. DEC supplies DLL drivers for various interfaces (theirs and 3Com's, I think) with PCSA and DECNet/DOS, and a number of other board vendors (e.g. Western Digital, Interlan that I know of) also offer DLL drivers for their own boards. FTP's PC/TCP (part PC-223) and Wollongong's WIN/PC can use DLL drivers. In addition, DEC has or will soon release an NDIS driver for the DEPCA. If you have this, you can use it with our freeware NDIS to Packet Driver adapter module (in pub/packet.driver/NDIS on vax.ftp.com, I won't mail it to you) and any of the TCP/IPs that support the Packet Driver (PC/TCP, WIN/PC, BWTCP, PCIP, KA9Q, NCSA, CUTCP, PCRoute, etc.). James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (10/04/90)
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: >In article <CMM.0.88.654810935.beach@ddnuvax.af.mil> beach@DDNUVAX.AF.MIL (darrel beach) writes: > Can anyone point me to drivers, software, vendors to let me run > TCP/IP on PCs which have a DEPCA (Digitals Ethernet PC bus Adapter) > cards. Packet drivers compatible with NCSA, KA9Q, or even a commercial > package would be appreciated. >Not yet, but the picture is coming into focus. We've gone from >"Digital refuses to release programming information" (that was just a >rumor) to "How may I help get you the information you need to write a >packet driver?" Wollongong's TCP for DOS has appropriate drivers etc. for DEPCA cards *but* like PCSA, they only seem to provide full functionality on the supported PC platforms ie IBM, Compaq etc. Clones of various types (with their myriad BIOS's) just don't work at all sometimes. This seems to occur with monotonous regularity. When it does work it's just fine :-) ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au
ctw@aerospace.aero.org (Charles T. Wolverton) (10/06/90)
In Article: 13237, ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) says: > Wollongong's TCP for DOS has appropriate drivers etc. for DEPCA cards ... ian My Wollongong documentation has installation instructions for 1. "an existing DEC LAN in working condition" 2. "an existing 3com 3+Open LAN in working condition" Is this equivalent to: 1.' "a network card with the appropriate DEC DLL-compliant driver" 2.' "a network card with the appropriate MS NDIS-compliant driver and protocol manager software" ??? If no, I don't understand the response quoted above. If yes, wouldn't the restated versions (possibly corrected, since I don't really understand yet how NDIS works and know nothing about DLL) be more generally useful?? Edification, please. -chas ctw@aero.org -- *** Charles T. Wolverton ***** Aerospace Corporation *** *** ctw@aerospace.aero.org ***** P.O. Box 92957 M1-023 *** *** (213) 336-5204 ***** Los Angeles, CA 90009 ***