Labels:text | menu | document | screenshot | font | number OCR: 100VG ADAPTER COMPARISON Vendor Compex Hewlett Packard Ragula Systems 4051 E. La Palma Ave. 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd. 860 E. 4500 S ., Ste. 302 Anaheim, CA 92807 Santa Clara, CA 95052, M/S 51LSD Salt Lake City, UT 84107 (714) 630-7302 (800) 752-0900 or (408) 246-4300 (800) RAGULA-1 or (801) 281-3434 Fax: (714) 630-6521 Fax: (800) 231-9300 or (208) 344-4809 Fax: (801) 281-0317 BBS: (714) 630-2570 BBS: (208) 344-1691 email: phardy@ragula.com CompuServe: GO HPPER http://www.hp.com/misc/peripherals.html ftp 192.6.71.2. Product name ENET100-VG4/EISA ENET100 VG4/ISA 12585A 10/100VG PCI 100VG ISA Adapter Card J2577A 10/100VG EISA J2578A 10/100VG ISA Data rate(s) 10/100Mbps 10/100Mbps 10/100Mbps Price ENET100-VG4/EISA: $299 12585A $249 $215 ENET100VG4/ISA: $199 J2577A: $279 12573A:$229 Requirements EIA/TIA 568 Category 3, 4, or 5 cabling EIA/TIA 568 Category 3, 4, or 5 cabling, EIA/TIA 568 Category 5 cabling, EISA EISA bus slot (for ENET100 VG4/EISA). PCI bus slot (for J2585A), EISA bus slot (for J2577A), or EISA or ISA bus slot (for J2573A) or ISA bus siot EISA or ISA bus slot (for ENET100:VG4/ISA) Documentation Fair to good. The manual describes all of the Good: An extensive, well-written manual leads Fair. The slim manual covers the basics card's operating modes (bus mastering." users through the installation process. The manual includes short but clear explanations of Demand of installing the card, but provides memory-mapped, and I/O-mapped) and only minimal troubleshooting information. describes the setup process for each mode. Priority Protocol and 100VG network design issues. No troubleshooting or diagnostic information Ten pages of troubleshooting and diagnostic information S included are included. Technical support Free (but not toll free) telephone support Free (but not toll-free) telephone support is Free (but not toll-free) telephone support is is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday available from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m ., Mountain time available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Friday, Pacific time. Support is also available via BBS, FaxBack, and CompuServe. The latest drivers are available Friday, Mountain time, The latest drivers are. also available through the ftp site. through the www or ftp sites. Warranty A five- year warranty covers repair or Hardware: lifetime of the PC in which the card is replacement. installed.provided the customer registers within Hardware: limited lifetime warranty, as long as card stays with the original owner. 90 days of purchase. Otherwise, warranty is Software and media: 90-day warranty. five years. Software: 90-day warranty on magnetic media Robustness/ Installing the NIC disabled the HP 100VG EISA : No operation or compatibility issues were found. No operation or compatibility issues were compatibility NIC in the NetWare 4.10 server. Using the Drivers included are DOS ODI, Netware 3.x and found. Drivers included are DOS ODI, Compex NIC alone worked without problems. 4.x servers, OS/2 LAN Manager servers and NetWare 3.x and 4.x servers, and NDIS Drivers included are DOS ODI, Netware 3.x and 4.x servers, and PC/TCP Packet Drivers. DOS clients, OS/2, Windows for Workgroups 2.01 and 3.0 (Windows NT) drivers. Windows NT, NDIS, and SCO Unix. PC/TCP Pecket Driver is also included. Applicability ENET100-VG4/EISA:100VG client and server 2585A and J2577A: 100VG client and Primarily for 100VG client applications applications; ENET100-VG4/ISA: Primarily for 100VG client applications where a 32 bit 1/0 server applications; J2573A: Primarily: where a 32-bit I/O bus is not available. for 100VG client applications where a 32-bit bus is not available /O bus is not available. Test environment 100VG network with Hewlett-Packard AdvanceStack J2410A 100VG Hub-15. EIA/TIA-568 Category 5 cabling. File server: AST Manhattan P 5090 90MHz Pentium with 32MB of RAM, two 1GB hard disk drives in mirrored configuration, PCI/EISA bus); NetWare 4.1. Clients: Compaq DeskPro 575 (75 MHz Pentium, 16MB of RAM, PCI/ISA bus), Compaq DeskPro XL 560 (60MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, PCI/EISA bus). Hewlett-Packard 486/66ST 66MHz 486 EISA with 16MB of RAM), ALR VEISA tower (33MHz 486 EISA with 8MB of RAM), four Hewlett Packard Vectra VL2s (50MHz of 486DX2 with 8MB of RAM). MS-DOS 6.2 or 6.21 and MS Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11.