Captain Midnight
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If anyone has some info on this, I'd like to know. I have a full-length 16-bit ethernet card with the following ROMs on it (labeled):
Network General, 1987
3Com, 1986/1987
There is a BNC connector on the back for 10 Base 2 cabling and a transciever port.
Got the MS-DOS MS Network Client and it recognized it as an original 3Com Etherlink, but no dice on anything made by "Network General."
I got a 10 Base T transceiver to see if I could hook it up to a router, but no dice. I figure the transciever can only communicate, say, 10 Base 5 to the balance of the card's circuitry and not my "modern" 10 Base T signal. But, this isn't my are of expertise, so....maybe so.
And even if so, this card has at two maybe three jumper blocks for the address base, DMA channels, etc. for which, well, documentation would be greatly appreciated.
Any suggestions or should this card be sent to "silicon heaven"?
Network General, 1987
3Com, 1986/1987
There is a BNC connector on the back for 10 Base 2 cabling and a transciever port.
Got the MS-DOS MS Network Client and it recognized it as an original 3Com Etherlink, but no dice on anything made by "Network General."
I got a 10 Base T transceiver to see if I could hook it up to a router, but no dice. I figure the transciever can only communicate, say, 10 Base 5 to the balance of the card's circuitry and not my "modern" 10 Base T signal. But, this isn't my are of expertise, so....maybe so.
And even if so, this card has at two maybe three jumper blocks for the address base, DMA channels, etc. for which, well, documentation would be greatly appreciated.
Any suggestions or should this card be sent to "silicon heaven"?
