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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA ethernet
- References: <30FF08D9.418@infohwy.com> <neilo-2001960716290001@d56-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au> <mbs.47i6@adastra.cvl.va.us> <4ena6h$9fs@due.unit.no>
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- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 07:01:08 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <4ena6h$9fs@due.unit.no> kolla@nvg.unit.no (Kolbjxrn Barmen) writes:
- > Michael B. Smith (mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us) wrote:
- > : The I-Card from Interworks is a PC PCMCIA card. It's one that matches the
- > : needs of the A-1200. It includes a SANA-II driver for use with I-Net 225,
- > : ENLAN DFS, etc. The phone number is 909-699-8120.
-
- > Yeah.. I also have one of those and my ... does it make my amy very unstable :(
- > To be able to use the icard.device at all I have to turn off all CPU cache,
- > and very often also the burst modes..
- > (I have the 1230IIIBlizzCard50MHz030+882,16MBFastRAM)
-
- > I believe all the probs are related on two things..
- >
- > 1.) the icard.device is buggy, therefor the offlinejumps and the CPU stuff.
- > Its also _very_ sencible to heavy nettrafic.. then it panics and
- > send out all kinds of weird packages, according tcpdump from another
- > machine. My version is icard.device 1.4, any newer out there ?
- > I've tried to get info at Interworks, but with no luck so far..
-
- icard.device isn't perfect, but I've never heard of problems like you
- describe; except where the hardware itself is broken, or the using
- software is broken.
-
- There are many many people using the I-Card with no problems. My _initial_
- reaction is that you have:
-
- 1) A problem with your "BlizzCard" (do your problems still happen when
- the accelerator isn't present?), or
-
- 2) A faulty PCMCIA slot (loose wires, bent wires, not a solid connection)?
-
- > 2.) the A1200 PCMCIA isnt quite up to the PCMCIA-II standard as it claimes,
- > cause when I insert the card, it mostly freezes the machine, even
- > without software running at all, on plain bootscreen. When I
- > withdraw it, the machine wakes up again. I use to play with this
- > until suddenly it doesnt freeze, so I can boot up.
-
- ????
-
- This shouldn't happen, but I can't say that I do this.
-
- > Having said all this I also must say that when the card actually work,
- > it really is a pleasure to work with, transfers at 150k/sec and more
- > are far better than the 5 I had on my SLIP account.
-
- Well, at least there is something good to say here! ;)
-
- > Any tip out there on what to do with my probs ??
-
- Other than checking on the things above, I have no idea.
-
- Realistically, we verify icard.device with I-Net 225 on every release,
- and I-Net 225 adheres to SANA-II v2 and supports SANA-II v1.5; we also
- test with on ENLAN and Envoy.
-
- We don't see the problems you are describing, which leads me in the
- direction of a hardware problem on your end.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
-