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From: bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Q: Novell NE1000 NIC and packet drivers
Message-ID: <242@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 16:08:32 GMT
Reply-To: bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker)
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Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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[Re-posted due to news troubles; if this appears as a duplicate to you, ignore!]

The Novell NE1000 8-bit PC ethernet card (and NE2000, a 16-bit version)
are starting to sell for around $150 Canadian in retail outlets.  This
makes them very attractive for adding PC's to our TCP/IP/NFS network.  But I
have been unable to find out any technical details about them from Novell
(after about a dozen phone calls to various Novell offices).  The only thing
I know for sure is that they use the DP8390 chip, the same one that the
popular WD8003 uses (and this tidbit from examining a photo in an ad!).

Does anyone know if the NE1000 can be used in some way with the Clarkson
Packet Drivers?
- is an NE1000 actually a WD8003 lookalike?
- has anyone written/adapted a packet driver for it?

I am ready and willing to do the packet driver port myself ... just need
that tech-info! Like i/o ports, shared ram addresses, register bits,
and so forth.

-- 
Bruce Walker                            ...uunet!utai!lsuc!isgtec!bmw
"Just say, ``No!'' to bugs."                        isgtec!bmw@censor
ISG Technologies Inc. 3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga. Ont. Can. L4V 1S8