CNV38@bnr.ca (Mike Hui, M.H.) (06/18/88)
Hi, I would appreciate it if someone can help me with the following: 1. What are the good reliable, decent throughput Ethernet card for the PC? 2. Which company adopts an open-door policy in terms of software and hardware interfaces to the card? I know that drivers for many Ethernet cards are available. I would, however, feel much more comfortable to deal with a vendor who doesn't mind or actually prefers to make their card's interface public. Mike Hui Bell-Northern Research P.O.Box 3511, Station C Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7 Tel: (613)-763-4020 CNV38@BNR.CA.BITNET
phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (06/18/88)
In article <8806171456.aa00215@Louie.UDEL.EDU> CNV38@bnr.ca (Mike Hui, M.H.) writes: >1. What are the good reliable, decent throughput Ethernet card > for the PC? >2. Which company adopts an open-door policy in terms of software > and hardware interfaces to the card? I know that drivers for > many Ethernet cards are available. I would, however, feel much > more comfortable to deal with a vendor who doesn't mind or > actually prefers to make their card's interface public. From both the performance side and openess side Western Digital seems to be the best. There's been a big discussion in this very group recently and the general conclusion seemed to be WD had the easiest to configure and fastest interface. I just got 900K of drivers, source and binary, and documentation by visiting my local WD guy. He said they were copyrighted by WD but were freely distributable. I've gotten a number of requests for the files and am now trying to figure out how to distribute them. Any suggestions? -- I speak for myself, not the company. Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com
amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Neta Amit) (06/18/88)
> I've gotten a number of requests for the files and am now trying to > figure out how to distribute them. Any suggestions? yeah. tar/compress or zoo, to reduce the distrib to 400K or so. Uuencode (to 550K ?), then split to 11 50K portions. Send by mail to someone whose machine supprots anon-ftp on the internet, and has a little room to spare. Wanna try me? -- Neta Amit U of Minnesota CSci Arpanet: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos) (06/19/88)
In article <22140@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes: > I just got 900K of drivers, source and binary, and documentation by > visiting my local WD guy. He said they were copyrighted by WD but were > freely distributable. I've gotten a number of requests for the files > and am now trying to figure out how to distribute them. > > Any suggestions? How 'bout setting them up someplace where they can be gotten by anonymous FTP or ftp (UUCP). If that represents a problem due to Amdahl policies, maybe somebody else would volunteer. (I'm not on the Internet, but I still might consider it) Ted Manos tmanos@aocgl.{COM,UUCP,UU.NET} or ...!{uunet,mcdchg}!aocgl!tmanos
SUPPORT2@NUS3090.BITNET (Chneg Lok) (06/23/88)
any idea who markets the WD card over here in Singapore?