Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!csvax1.cs.tcd.ie!swift.cs.tcd.ie!dit2!alawlor From: alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: WD8003E Ethernet cards and Novell. (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <5387.25713cbe@dit.ie> Date: 27 Nov 89 13:55:10 GMT Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology Lines: 126 This is a summary of the responses to my query re problems with WD8003E cards in a mixed Network. The general consensus is that my drivers aren't up to date, so I should get new ones. The responses included phone numbers for a WD bulletin board,and offers to leave the drivers for FTP access. But FTP isn't available from this side of the Atlantic, and I'm going to try and get the drivers locally before I attempt a trans-atlantic Comms session to download the latest versions. My dealer has been helpful, but specifically sold the WD for 3Com lans (where thay work fine!), and if we had specified Novell, would have supplied D-Link DE-001s (NE-100 clones). (He now no longer supplies WD8003s as he has 3Com Drivers for the D-Link card.) Thanks again to all who responded, Aengus Lawlor, Dept of Computer Science, College of Technology, Kevin St, Dublin 8. Ireland. PS. I will post a followup when I eventually get this sorted out. Aengus. ============================================================================= Organization: University of Washington, Seattle I have experienced a similar situation with, of all things, IBM PC LAN cards and IBM Token Ring cards in a mixed LAN. Seems to be a software problem when running something called PC Chalkboard. Otherwise, things run okay. Can you send messages from one station of one type to all other type stations? If you can do that then the problem is with the app rather than the NOS. Ron Kline Arts and Sciences Computing U of Washington =========================================================================== From: David Nerenberg Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) I have not had the same results. I have always been able to mix all the card you listed and a few more on the same Novell net. Perhaps your driver is corrupted. I will put my driver onto cwlim.ins.cwru.edu and you can FTP ti anonymously if you like. I won't be able to put it on until at least late thursday or friday, so give me some time. Good luck... Dave =========================================================================== From: Tom Allebrandi We are mixing cards right now. Our house lan is based purely on Interlan NI5210's. We are staging a lan for a client that is purely WD8003E's. Right now, everything is hung off of the same wire - and everybody is talking to everybody else. We have both workstations and servers with both kinds of cards. However, I do seem to remember some noise about making sure that the WD8003E's are talking >> 802.3 << instead of Ethernet. Novell nets normally use 802.3. Shoot me some mail if you need more help. I'll get the straight story from the guy who's working on the lan that contains the WD cards... --- Tom Tom Allebrandi | Advanced Computer Consulting,Inc Charlottesville, VA 804 977 4272 | VMS User's Network Working Group -- The DECUS UUCP people Bix: ta2 | Internet: ta2@acci.com | Bitnet: ta2%esther@virginia.edu | UUCP: ta2@esther.uucp (...!uunet!virginia!esther!ta2) =========================================================================== From: Brian Meek Organization: Excelan, Inc., San Jose, Califonia You can download new WD drivers from the NetWire forum on CompuServe, (Go NOVA) or call the Western Digital BBS (714)756-8176, 2400-N-8-1. You also should verify that none (or all) of the shell and server drivers have been configured for ethernet (using Novell's econfig utililty). I'm sure you are having WD driver related problem. Good luck with it, brian meek =========================================================================== From: vanden@studsys.mu.edu (vandenberg) Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Concurring w/ other postings it sounds like your WD driver. You can download the latest *.LAN and *.OBJ files from the BBS @ 714-756-8176 Their technical support phone number is 800-777-4787. I think the parameters on the BBS are 8-1-n 24/12bps You will need pkarc to unarc the files you get from there. In addition to the latest drivers they also have some help documents if you're doing anything unusual. If you have any questions please let me know. Tom Vandenberg {..uunet..uwvax!uwmcsd1..}!marque!studsys!vanden vanden%studsys@marque.UUCP {..uwvax..arpa..}!studsys.mu.edu!vanden =========================================================================== From: chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) Organization: New York University What you say is bizarre. There should be no interoperability problems. We have a 2.15 server with a WD board in the server; at workstations we have wd boards, 3com 3c501 boards, micom-interlan 5010 boards. No problems. =========================================================================== From: rickm@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rick Millhollin) Organization: University of Oregon We have the same kind of mix of 3C501, NE1000, and WD8003E station cards talking to 3C505, NE2000, and NP600 server cards; all with no problems. However, I do believe that the shell driver software that came with the WD8003E had problems, and we had to get another version. Unfortunately, the fellow who got it is not here, and I don't know the source. I could make it available to you via FTP if you have internet access. =========================================================================== From: haas@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Sounds like the driver that came with the WD card uses a different packet format. Can you get your hands on a Sniffer or something similar? =========================================================================== From: Robert.McNeill@p1.f437.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Robert McNeill) Organization: FidoNet node 1:106/437.1 - The Soldier's Bored, Missouri City TX Do you have all your cards set to use 802.3 standard or do you take advantage of the cards capability of exceeding 100 meters. If so the manual for both the 3com cards and the WDC cards say the will only work with their own cards.