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From: glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: NI5210 Packet Driver fails w/ 8K board
Message-ID: <2353@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 89 19:46:51 GMT
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Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
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I am having trouble using the NI5210 packet driver distributed by
Clarkson on a board that has only 8K on it.  The driver fails with
"Timed out while initializing 5210." when I try to load a driver
on a 5210 that either has an empty memory socket or a novell remote
boot prom in it (i.e. 8K RAM only).  I have tried this on a few
different machines.

A quick look as the source code (last update 4/27/89) shows that 
the driver pokes out 5 words to the upper 8K (a potentially bad 
practice if the upper 8k isn't there), but the comments say it 
doesn't use it.  I could not find any information in the 
documentation as to whether the driver was written for a 16k 
configuration.  

Any help/patches would be appreciated.


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-- Glen M. Marianko, Supervisor of Data Communications and Hardware Support
   glen@aecom.yu.edu - {uunet}!aecom!glen - CIS: 76247,450