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Some time ago I got this WD8003W ethernet card and I thought it would work in my XT, but I'm facing problems with just that.
The card has an 8-bit ISA connector, and there shoudn't really be any problems since this card is designed for PC's and XT's IIRC. The card does work in my 486.
So to the actual problem. There are two packet-drivers I can choose from, as of I know. One supplied by Crynwr, and another supplied by SMC (it's based on the one from Crynwr anyways). There is what's happening when running the drivers:
"Error: The memory at this address does not belong to WD/SMC/IBM".
My XT locks up.
Somehow, I got the SMC_WD driver to work ONCE, but I haven't been able to repeat that.
It's using SRAM, so it shouldn't be any problem with memory refresh. I have made sure no other card is conflicting, however, it might be because I run the driver off a floppy drive.
Anybody else got experiences with this card (or similars)?
The card has an 8-bit ISA connector, and there shoudn't really be any problems since this card is designed for PC's and XT's IIRC. The card does work in my 486.
So to the actual problem. There are two packet-drivers I can choose from, as of I know. One supplied by Crynwr, and another supplied by SMC (it's based on the one from Crynwr anyways). There is what's happening when running the drivers:
Code:
SMC_WD 0x60
Code:
PKT8000 0x60
Somehow, I got the SMC_WD driver to work ONCE, but I haven't been able to repeat that.
It's using SRAM, so it shouldn't be any problem with memory refresh. I have made sure no other card is conflicting, however, it might be because I run the driver off a floppy drive.
Anybody else got experiences with this card (or similars)?
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