perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) (07/19/90)
According to the PC-NFS manual (3.1 or whatever is current) the
UB NIU board is supported with "special software" available from
Ungermann-Bass.
According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50)
that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board.
But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install
PC-NFS for the NIC. UB says I need to get some "special driver" from
SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC. And, this is the best part,...
they've never tested it!! But, says UB, "it probably works" because
they wrote it to SUN's specs.
Anyway does anyone out there know what's really going on. Geoff??
Richard
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Richard Perlman |*| perl@pbseps.pacbell.com |*| (415) 545-0233geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (08/01/90)
Quoth perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) (in <1990Jul19.165457.29921@PacBell.COM>): # #According to the PC-NFS manual (3.1 or whatever is current) the #UB NIU board is supported with "special software" available from #Ungermann-Bass. # #According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50) #that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board. #But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install #PC-NFS for the NIC. UB says I need to get some "special driver" from #SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC. And, this is the best part,... #they've never tested it!! But, says UB, "it probably works" because #they wrote it to SUN's specs. No comment on UB... However, the PC-NFS NDIS driver is part of the PC-NFS driver compatibility kit available from Clarkson and elsewhere, and it will be in the next release of PC-NFS. -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ** Back in the USA after a month in England. Most memorable scene: visiting ** ** the "Duke Humfrey" library (part of the Bodleian in Oxford): wonderful ** ** 15th century ceiling, incanabulae and desks, the latter with PCs on... **