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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: HELP: What ether controller is in VAXMATE
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.222156.3389@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 02:21:56 GMT
- References: <84255@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <84255@netnews.upenn.edu>, STEIN_A@mscf.med.upenn.edu (Alan Stein) writes:
- > I'm interested in hooking a VAXMATE up to a thin-wire
- > network of unix machines running TCP/IP. I have the
- > clarkson packet drivers and CUTCP which I am hoping to
- > run on the VAXMATE. My problem is that I have
- > absolutely no idea what driver (and what interrupts/addrs)
- > to use. Does anyone on this newsgroup know? (or can
- > tell me definitively that this is an inane idea that won't
- > ever work)?
-
- The VAXmate has a built-in implementation of the DEPCA with a few differ-
- ences. Note that (as of the last time I looked) the Clarkson kit's DEPCA
- driver only worked with "new" DEPCAs and not the original one. [DEC had this
- disturbing tendancy to call all their PC Ethernet cards "DEPCA" although they
- had _very_ different programming interfaces].
-
- DEC's PCSA for the VAXmate used a driver called DLLLANCE, while the DEPCA
- cards used DLLDEPCA, so there are some differences. If you wanted to do it
- yourself, you could get the data sheet for the AMD Lance (Local Area Network
- Controller for Ethernet) chip. You'd probably also need the VAXmate Technical
- Reference Manual (parts 1 & 2).
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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