hisaw@nevada.edu (DAVID HISAW) (06/12/91)
Does anyone know where I can find a device driver for the old Excelan EtherPort II card. I tried contacting Shiva Tech. support since they now have rights to the EtherPort product line to see if they could help me but have not heard back from them. If I'm not mistaken someone posted a few months back stating they had written a compatible driver and that it was available via anon FTP. Could anyone help me out? I'm running A/UX 2.0.1
sysmark@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun11.190618.20252@nevada.edu> hisaw@nevada.edu (DAVID HISAW) writes: | Does anyone know where I can find a device driver for the old Excelan | EtherPort II card. I tried contacting Shiva Tech. support since they | now have rights to the EtherPort product line to see if they could | help me but have not heard back from them. Dayna Communications (801/531-0600, 801/972-2000) sells one for $49.95 plus shipping. They support only the later-model EtherPort II boards, though. The original boards were long, and used one vendor's ethernet chip, whereas the later boards were short, and used some other vendor's ethernet chip. (I once knew who the chip sources were, but I've since forgotten.) If you have an old-style long EtherPort II board, you're out of luck. Or, more accurately, semi-out_of_luck. Dayna has (or at least had) a program where if you had an old (long) EtherPort II, you could send it to them and buy their board (the DaynaPort) for 50% off. The company itself struck me as a bit flaky (organizationally, that is): When I first ordered the driver, nobody told me that there *were* two different flavours of EtherPort boards (I certainly didn't know), nor that they supported only one flavour. In fact, ours was an old one. So we went ahead and ordered one of their boards, which we're now using. It took five or six phone calls over the course of a couple months just to get the confirming paperwork that I needed to submit for reimbursement at my end (I'd charged it to my credit card, to expedite delivery). Technically, though they seem OK: Their driver works just fine with the board we got from them. Since we don't have any of the newer EtherPort products, I can't confirm that the Dayna driver works equally well with them, as they claim. No reason to suspect otherwise, though. If you hear of anyone who provides an A/UX driver for the *old* EtherPort boards, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it. Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619 Canadian Institute for mark@cita.toronto.edu Theoretical Astrophysics mark@cita.utoronto.ca
liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (06/18/91)
In <1991Jun12.174952.2567@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> sysmark@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes: >| Does anyone know where I can find a device driver for the old Excelan >| EtherPort II card. I tried contacting Shiva Tech. support since they >| now have rights to the EtherPort product line to see if they could >| help me but have not heard back from them. >Dayna Communications (801/531-0600, 801/972-2000) sells one for $49.95 >plus shipping. They support only the later-model EtherPort II boards, >though. The original boards were long, and used one vendor's ethernet >chip, whereas the later boards were short, and used some other vendor's >ethernet chip. Intel 82586 >If you hear of anyone who provides an A/UX driver for the *old* EtherPort >boards, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it. This situation is plainly ridiculous. Until such time as someone's legal department asks me to cease and desist, you can get that A/UX 1.1 version of the EtherPort driver software by anonymous FTP: Host: redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.64.4] File: archive/aux/epdriver.1.1.Z Size: 9825 bytes (compressed tar file) NB: * Our DNS may not be correctly set up - please mail me if you have any problems with this. * It is only the A/UX 1.1 version of the driver, so it won't support EtherTalk Phase 2 (NFS etc are OK though). * It only works for the old-style ETherPort II card (the full length one) * The tar file unpacks directly into place in subdirectories of /etc. There is no nice, neat installation script (they never poroduced one). -- % William Roberts Internet: liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk % Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-dcs.UUCP % Mile End Road Telephone: +44 71 975 5234 % LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Fax: +44 81-980 6533
jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) (06/18/91)
In article <3372@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes: }In <1991Jun12.174952.2567@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> }sysmark@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes: } }>| Does anyone know where I can find a device driver for the old Excelan }>| EtherPort II card. I tried contacting Shiva Tech. support since they }>| now have rights to the EtherPort product line to see if they could }>| help me but have not heard back from them. } }>Dayna Communications (801/531-0600, 801/972-2000) sells one for $49.95 }>plus shipping. They support only the later-model EtherPort II boards, }>though. The original boards were long, and used one vendor's ethernet }>chip, whereas the later boards were short, and used some other vendor's }>ethernet chip. } I'm told by Dayna that since they no longer sell the cards, they are no longer selling the drivers! Since I was told that (over 3 months ago) I've made avail- able the old Dayna drivers via anon-ftp on my Mac (jagubox)... they will remain until Shiva has written THEIR drivers, which I would then urge people to buy (if Shiva is as underhanded as Dayna and SELLS them :( ) } }>If you hear of anyone who provides an A/UX driver for the *old* EtherPort }>boards, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it. } }This situation is plainly ridiculous. Until such time as someone's legal }department asks me to cease and desist, you can get that A/UX 1.1 version of }the EtherPort driver software by anonymous FTP: } }Host: redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.64.4] }File: archive/aux/epdriver.1.1.Z }Size: 9825 bytes (compressed tar file) } Also available on my Mac too... 'Course, the drivers don't allow EtherTalk. Also, my "version" has a simple installation script which checks for the correct "bnet" module before installing the drivers... -- =========================================================================== #include <std/disclaimer.h> =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.4 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as a man and then compare the relative brain size, we know find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it WAS!"
MUGGC@CUNYVM.BITNET (AGS) (06/20/91)
you can edit the apple ae6 installation script quite easily to work with the ep driver. alex smith cuny->gsuc->music