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From: erics@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Dale McAtee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Starlan 10 and 10BaseT
Message-ID: <4310158@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 02:57:17 GMT
References: <40106@cup.portal.com>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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Alan,

The HP StarLAN-10 cards come in two flavors.  The first were (except for the
wiring drivers) equivalent to the 3Com 3C501 EtherLink card.  If you have 
drivers for the 3C501 cards (including Clarkson packet drivers) they will
work with the card.  The card is known as a D1802A or a HP27236A card.  You
will see the numbers 27236-xxxxx somewhere in the card.

The next generation of HP StarLAN-10 cards were a much improved design, with
32K of buffer memory (compared to 2K for the 3C501 design).  This card is 
known as the D1808A card, or as the HP27240A card.  It will have the 
numbers 27240-xxxxx somewhere on the card.  Recently there has been added a
HPLAN driver to the Clarkson Packet Driver Collection.  From a driver
perspective, the HP27240A cards are the same as the HP27245A EtherTwist 
10-Base-T card, so the HPLAN drivers should work for it.  

The HP EtherTwist 10-Base-T cards can be connected to the HP StarLAN-10 hub,
the only thing that needs to be done is to disable the "linkbeat" integrity
checking on the card, via a dip-switch.  

If you need NDIS drivers for the HP27236A cards, look in the 3Com forum on
CompuServe for 3C501 EtherLink drivers.  If you need NDIS drivers for the 
HP27245A StarLAN-10 PC Link II card, look for the NDIS drivers in the 
New Uploads or Vectra file section in the HP forum on CompuServe.  Again,
these will be called drivers for the HP2724X EtherTwist cards...

As always, these are personal comments, no warrenties, written or implied,
from the commisioner of baseball, Hewlett-Packard, etc....

-Dale McAtee