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- From: mhw@warlord.UUCP (Michael H. Warfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Help wanted: Interlan Ethernet drivers
- Message-ID: <242@warlord.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 02:26:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.180609.11685@bostech.com> <241@warlord.UUCP> <1992Jul23.161641.12328@bostech.com>
- Organization: Thaumaturgy & Speculums Engineering
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- In <1992Jul23.161641.12328@bostech.com> weare@bostech.com (Ged Weare) writes:
- >Well, I gotta say, in a pathetic attempt at fairness, that I had nothing but
- >good service from both Interlan (Ooops, Racal-Datacom), and from NCM. They
- >did try hard to help me. I talked to three or four different NCM people,
- >including a technical guy. They even called me back! In fact, a supervisor
- >called me back to ask if I'd been treated right. I have to admit I was.
-
- Yeah, I heard from them pretty quickly after my first reply here.
- I may have caught somebody on a bad day or something when I contacted them
- a few months ago. They had resonable explanations and were quite forthcoming
- on details. Gang, I really hope my second contact with NCM was more
- representative of their level of support than my first. If so, I'm
- impressed. They do seem to be concerned, interested, and helpful.
-
- >As I said, still no unix. The only un-explored avenue was that one of
- >the NCM people said (or implied, or atleast I inferred) that the NP600
- >might work in NI6510 (?) mode, as a dumb card. That should not need
- >bus mastering, so I plan to check it out.
-
- Anybody figures out how to get that to work, I want to know. However,
- can it be made to support the higher interrupts. The NI drivers I have
- only support the 8 bit interrupts. Main reason I wanted to use the cards
- to begin with is for the interrupts on the 16 bit interface. The processor
- is actually much slower than my host processor, which is not CPU bound at
- this time. As a result, the intellegent NP card would actually slow network
- traffic down. But since I'm not network traffic bound either, that's not
- much of a problem. I just need more interrupts! :-( ;-( :-(
-
- Mike Warfield
- mhw@warlord.uucp
-