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From: rnicovic@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ralph Nicovich)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Ethernet card for AT&T PC.
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.234439.5617@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 89 23:44:39 GMT
Reply-To: rnicovic@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ralph Nicovich)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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I have a user with an AT&T 6386 WGS. This is a 16Mhz 386 machine
running DOS.
I need to connect it to my campus wide network, which is Ethernet
and uses (mostly) TCP/IP.
The problem is the normal cards we use are made by UB but I can't
get them to work in this machine, probably because of buss speed.
If anyone knows how to make a UB card work in this machine it would
be my prefered solution, but at thispoint I would use anything.
I called the AT&T technical hot line and was then in a marithon of
being given new numbers, and explaining the problem over and over.
8 phone calls and 10 people later, and I am not sure AT&T knows
what an ETHERNET is. (of course AT&T does but the people on these
hot lines have not a clue).
For this aplication the user will log into a SUN with telenet and
run an aplication called ARCHINFO. I must be able to suport a
techtronic terminal emulator and XWINDOWS would be nice.
Any Ideas/experiances would be apreciated, both hardware and software.
I must connect to a tranceiver (AUI) port on my network. If I must
I will consider using twisted pair (starlan) and connect it to
Ethernet, but I am price sensitive on this installation.
Ralph Nicovich
Network Engineering
Cal Poly State University.