FS: 2 x 10base2 Ethernet cards
Richard Walker
I've got *two* I-cubed EtherLAN 500 Ethernet cards for sale. Spec:
- 10base2 connector
- A300, 400, 3000, 5000, 7000 and Risc PC compatible
- StrongARM compatible
- driver in flashROM is EtherH 4.06
With the addition of a cheapo (20ukp) multi-port hub, you can obviously
join these cards to 10baseT networks - very useful. By the way, such hubs
are *cheap* and *small*.
Please send offers via email, as to avoid clogging up the groups. Having
said that, I'm not sure how much they are worth, so a few value-related
comments here would be helpful!
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James MacDonald
Richard Walker <runny...@mindless.com> wrote:
> I've got *two* I-cubed EtherLAN 500 Ethernet cards for sale. Spec:
> - 10base2 connector
> - A300, 400, 3000, 5000, 7000 and Risc PC compatible
> - StrongARM compatible
> - driver in flashROM is EtherH 4.06
EtherH v4.06 may not be StrongARM compatible. Sure, the machine will boot,
but you may not get very far after that. Also, beware of broken Internet
modules.
If *EHInfo doesn't mention "StrongARM interface" then you should use a
version of EtherH that does, such as v4.33 - I have to soft-load because I
don't know the password for i^3's reflasher, and I don't trust it much
either.
> With the addition of a cheapo (20ukp) multi-port hub, you can obviously
> join these cards to 10baseT networks - very useful.
Or, you could just buy a combo card.. my EtherLAN 600 (602?) is a combo 1M
flash ROM card with EtherH v4.18 (4.33 soft-loaded) cost me UKP 40.
I'd say your cards are probably worth about UKP 20 each. Run CardTest (from
i^3's web site, or perhaps DesignIT) because the output is very useful.
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S Williams
James MacDonald <tr...@topeka.clara.co-invalid.uk> wrote:
> EtherH v4.06 may not be StrongARM compatible. Sure, the machine will boot,
> but you may not get very far after that. Also, beware of broken Internet
> modules.
Help what do you mean by "broken Internet modules". I am wondering if this is giving me problems with a card that has been tested by Atomwide and confirmed as SARPC happy.......
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James MacDonald
S Williams <St...@mistymornings.demon.nl> wrote:
> In message <c4273cb1...@topeka.clara.co.uk>
> James MacDonald <tr...@topeka.clara.co-invalid.uk> wrote:
> > EtherH v4.06 may not be StrongARM compatible. Sure, the machine will
> > boot, but you may not get very far after that. Also, beware of broken
> > Internet modules.
> Help what do you mean by "broken Internet modules".
Some versions of the Internet module don't work properly.
> I am wondering if this is giving me problems with a card that has been
> tested by Atomwide and confirmed as SARPC happy.......
If you've got an SA RPC, you should be using at least Internet v5.02 as in
ROM. Make sure you *Unplug any Internet modules on your network card.
Internet v5.02/v5.04/v5.06 don't appear to be broken. Although you can cause
an abort in Internet v5.02 by doing an nmap deep-scan on the box. If the box
were unattended.. well, that's why you shouldn't use RISC OS as a server.
David J. Ruck
<URL:mailto:tr...@topeka.clara.co-invalid.uk> wrote:
> In message <85ba83b849%St...@mistymornings.demon.nl>
> S Williams <St...@mistymornings.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> > In message <c4273cb1...@topeka.clara.co.uk>
> > James MacDonald <tr...@topeka.clara.co-invalid.uk> wrote:
>
> > > EtherH v4.06 may not be StrongARM compatible. Sure, the machine will
> > > boot, but you may not get very far after that. Also, beware of broken
> > > Internet modules.
4.06 definintly isnt Strong ARM compatible, you need atleast 4.32, the
latest being 4.33
> > Help what do you mean by "broken Internet modules".
>
> Some versions of the Internet module don't work properly.
One of the worst if Internet 4.10 supplied with the ANT/Atomwide EtherM
cards. If you are using RISC OS 3.5 or 3.6 it superceeds 4.07 on disc
and ROM. Its TCP handling is serverly broken. You should immediately
do a *Unplug Internet 8 to kill it and revert to your ROM or disc based
copy. I repeatedly reported these problems to Acorn and ANT/Atomwide
but was meet with complete lack of interest.
>> I am wondering if this is giving me problems with a card that has been
>> tested by Atomwide and confirmed as SARPC happy.......
>
> If you've got an SA RPC, you should be using at least Internet v5.02 as in
> ROM. Make sure you *Unplug any Internet modules on your network card.
I'd endorse that, the 5 series stack performs much better with all network
cards (except Ether1's which it is not compatible with).
> Internet v5.02/v5.04/v5.06 don't appear to be broken. Although you can
> cause an abort in Internet v5.02 by doing an nmap deep-scan on the box. If
> the box were unattended.. well, that's why you shouldn't use RISC OS as a
> server.
There are minor issues with 5.02 to 5.06 (which incidentally PACE have fixed
in their later versions, but are handing on to), however these wont effect
normal TCP/IP software.
---druck
Chris Downs
<ne...@druck.freeuk.com> wrote:
>There are minor issues with 5.02 to 5.06 (which incidentally PACE have fixed
>in their later versions, but are handing on to), however these wont effect
>normal TCP/IP software.
What are these "issues"? (esp in v5.06)
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David J. Ruck
<URL:mailto:chris...@mailpurge.arg0net.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000 21:18:53 +0100, "David J. Ruck"
> <ne...@druck.freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>
> >There are minor issues with 5.02 to 5.06 (which incidentally PACE have fixed
> >in their later versions, but are handing on to), however these wont effect
> >normal TCP/IP software.
>
> What are these "issues"? (esp in v5.06)
IIRC mostly very niggly things with esoteric ioctl's and such like. If you
want to know more deatils, pester Stewart Brodie at Pace :-)
---druck
Stewart Brodie
Please don't pester me ;-) I don't have any information on the Internet
module like that.
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