[ On Friday, September 29, 2000 at 15:26:28 (-0400), Andrew Gillham wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Network Interface Cards
>
> You can get system pulls for around $15USD.  Take a look at pricewatch.com
> and you'll see them.

We've got a surplus store here in Toronto (Above All, on Bloor St, just
west of Bathurst St. if you're local and don't yet know about it) where
you can scrounge through boxes and boxes of ISA NICs of various kinds
and most are (or were earlier this summer) priced at $5/each.  I got all
the good ones though!  :-)

I'm still hoping to get driver fixes for the Intel EtherExpress-PRO/10's
I bought there (model # 352118-002).  They seem to run fast enough, but
last time I tried them on 1.4V, ping complained about corrupt packets....

Someone needs to reverse engineer Intel's setup program though....  It's
rediculous that we can't have these hardware setup programs on our own
OS.  In some cases you could even have the driver do the setup if it had
to and if you knew how to do it!

If all else fails I may pull the second 3c509 I've got in another old
486 and pair it up with the 3c509B-TPO model and see how they fair, but
it's a bit of a pain to have to tear down my production router for
testing these days....

The one other ISA card I have that might be half decent is an SMC 8416BT
but I don't have the setup program for it and I've only got one.  It has
an SMC 83C795QF chip....  I don't know if it's better than the 8013's or
not, but it is apparently newer.

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