Suggested PCI 10/100 NIC card?
Mike Luther
MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2 and not
specifically supported by GENMAC?
Thanks!
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Mike Luther
ivan
wrote:
> What is a reasonable currently available PCI LAN NIC 100/level card for OS/2
> MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2 and not
> specifically supported by GENMAC?
>
> Thanks!
>
Almost anything with a realtek rtl8139 chip on it.
I usually get the 5 to 10 cards at my local supermarket. They all
work without problems.
ivan
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Mike Luther
What NIC driver device choice from the \IBMCOM\MACS\ directory does this use
in the Adapters And Protocol Services object in the OS/2 Setup folder?
ivan
wrote:
> Thanks Ivan
>
> ivan wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:04:14 UTC, Mike Luther <mike....@ziplog.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> What is a reasonable currently available PCI LAN NIC 100/level card for OS/2
> >> MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2 and not
> >> specifically supported by GENMAC?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> > Almost anything with a realtek rtl8139 chip on it.
> >
> > I usually get the
5 to
10 cards at my local supermarket. They all
> > work without problems.
> >
> > ivan
> >
>
> What NIC driver device choice from the \IBMCOM\MACS\ directory does this use
> in the Adapters And Protocol Services object in the OS/2 Setup folder?
>
> Thanks!
>
Hi Mike,
You need to get RTSND323.ZIP from hobbes and put the contents into
\ibmcom\macs\ it will then appear as Realtek 8139/8130/810x Fast
Ethernet Adapter (2003-01-27) in the setup folder.
ivan
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Mike Luther
ivan wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> You need to get RTSND323.ZIP from hobbes and put the contents into
> \ibmcom\macs\ it will then appear as Realtek 8139/8130/810x Fast
> Ethernet Adapter (2003-01-27) in the setup folder.
>
Thanks again Ivan. OK I found a pile of Dybex DX-E102 10/100 PCI cards at
Best Buy here which have the RTL8139D Realtek chip in them. In looking at the
documentation file in the RTSND232.ZIP fron Hobbs, it does not specifically
list this card as a 'supported' card. As sometimes taught in OS/2 per my
memory, the instructions in the rtl3189.txt file in that .ZIP call for me to
put the files in a temporary directory, then call for OS/2 to use that drive
and path for the 'install' in Adapters and Protocol Services. Which I recall
from long ago do result in the 'installation' of the 'appropriate' .NIF and
.OS2 files in the \IBMCOM\MACS\ directory. Then just to reboot and, from what
I think I read, the card would be automatically found and 'installed' on
reboot??
For years now, I've just used the technique of copying the 'proper' .NIF and
.OS2 files for a given card manually into the \IBMCOM\MACS\ directory. Then
just de-installing a previous NIC, and then using the 'standard' procedure to
define the new card in the setup program for Adapters an Protocol Services to
work with the card, together with the required OS/2 Netbios and in my case
OS/2 TCP/IP protocols.
RTSND323.ZIP has the following files in it:
dumpio.exe
rtl8139.nif
rtl8139.txt
rtsnd.os2
rtsnd.sym
rtsnd323.zip
rtsnddmn.exe
Which does *NOT* match my experience as being a required, say, for the
Kingston KTC120's I've used frequently as:
3-18-99 6:12p 607 0 KTC120.NIF
3-17-99 8:03p 45745 0 KTC120.OS2
Does this mean that if I were to copy the rtl8139.nif and rtsnd.os2 files that
are in the .ZIP into the \IBMCOM\MACS\ directory as I am used to doing, I
would be able to 'see' this data defined as I see in the rtl8139.nif file:
Title = "Realtek 8139/8130/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter"
Which will then actually use what I see as:
Name = RTSND.OS2
Path = IBMCOM\MACS
So that I can MANUALLY do the install the way I 'normally' do this? And so
done, any time a have any one of these documented cards in the system, or, for
example, the new Dynex card I have in the system, it will properly see an set
up for the Realtek 8139 chip that is on it? I've never seen this before if
the .NIF and .OS2 file are of different names.
ivan
wrote:
>
>
Hi Mike,
All I have ever done is to place the RTL8139.NIF and RTSND.OS2 into
the \ibmcom\macs and then found it in the list of adapters.
You should be able to follow your normal manual procedure and not
worry about the brand of card - none of mine are on the documented
cards list and they all work.
Another thing, there doesn't appear to be any problem with the *.nif
and *.os2 having different names - it just works.
ivan
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James Moe
> What is a reasonable currently available PCI LAN NIC 100/level card for
> OS/2 MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2
> and not specifically supported by GENMAC?
>
network adapter.
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James Moe
jmm-list at sohnen-moe dot com
Peter Brown
Mike Luther wrote:
> What is a reasonable currently available PCI LAN NIC 100/level card for
> OS/2 MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2
> and not specifically supported by GENMAC?
>
> Thanks!
>
Possibly an Intel nic supported by the new Intel e1000 driver? - see
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac
I also believe the new Realtek driver is not far off release.
Regards
Pete
Andreas Buchinger
> ...Then just de-installing a previous NIC, and then using the 'standard'
> procedure to define the new card...
With OS/2 it's much easier than with other systems. There's the 'change' button
in mpts to change the card without deleting/inserting protocols...
Eric Erickson
>On 02/02/2011 07:04 PM, Mike Luther wrote:
>> What is a reasonable currently available PCI LAN NIC 100/level card for
>> OS/2 MCP2 latest everything, hopefully one that has a driver for OS/2
>> and not specifically supported by GENMAC?
>>
> If you can find one (ebay?), the 3com 3c905 is an extremely reliable
>network adapter.
>
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Yep, thats what I use. I got a lot of 10 from eBay last year for about 15
bucks. A couple turned out to be bad, but a $2.00 a card, its not a bad deal.
I use 2 of them in each of my OS/2 servers.
Cheers,
Eric Erickson
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