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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: interfacing with Ethernet cards
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Date: 4 Sep 90 13:54:16 GMT
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    I believe some people here may have experience developing
    device drivers for the following Ethernet adapter
    cards:
    1. Acer 5220
    2. AST-Ethernet Adapter
    3. DTK Ethernet LAN card
    4. Earthnet-Ie
    5. G/Ethernet AT
    6. IMC Networks PCnic
    7. Localnet D-Link
    8. Novell NNE1000
    9. 3C501 EtherLink card
    10. 3C503 EtherLink II
    11. 3C505 EtherLink Plus
    12. Tiara LanCard E
    13. Univation LifeLink

With the possible exception of the "Earthnet-Ie" and the AST card,
all of the above boards have Packet Drivers.  Some are in the
Clarkson collection, some (Gateway, Univation, IMC, Acer, Tiara) are
only available from the board manufacturer.  IMHO, you'd be a *lot*
better off writing to either the Packet Driver spec (available from
vax.ftp.com in pub/packet-d.ascii) or the NDIS spec (same machine,
pub/ndis-mac.v101.txt, which all the drivers I've seen so far conform
to or pub/ndis-mac.v201.txt, for a revision with more features) than
doing 10 drivers of your own (several of the above cards are clones
of the original Nat Semi DP839EB demo board, and could be covered by
one software driver with a little extra effort).

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