HAUPTMAN@DMRHRZ11.BITNET (02/05/88)
Here at University Marburg, Germany we have a bunch of
Siemens PCD (MS-DOS -) computers. Some have a Ethernetboard installed.
We are a bit confused about these Boards. Perhaps these cards
were manufactured by 3COM.
Description:
The boards are labeld: Siemens Ethenet Rev. 2 0
Outside is a sticker by 3COM stating the Ethernetaddress
e.g. 026080-151019. Some of the Chips on the board:
DI 0755-01 8607
SEEQ D0 8001 85344
Sony 5H06 CXK5816P
I've no idea whether these are the relevant chips, they just look most
impressive to me.
On the board is one switch and a chunt block to select between Thinwire
and Tranceiver.
Questions:
1) Where can we get more information about these cards? Low level
interfaces, addreses, registers, interrupts and such.
2) Is this board (software-)compatible to any "well known" card, like
3C501, 3C505, WD8003?
3) We would like to run Novell Netware. Where can we get the drivers?
Thanks,
Klaus Hauptmann HAUPTMAN@DMRHRZ11.BITNET
BIX-Id: msommersunny@hoptoad.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (02/06/88)
These sound very much like the original 3-Com Ethernet board for
IBM-PC... so I'd suggest contacting 3-Com, who are on the uucp net.
If you can't find them in your uucp maps, let me know and I'll
chase down an e-mail address, a physical address, or phone number
for you.
The SEEQ 8001 chip was not used in very many designs, but it was
one of the earliest available. I don't know if 3-Com has a newer
design out (they probably do), but their original IBM-PC board
was the first to use the SEEQ-8001.
Sunny
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