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Help - Gateway Communications WNIM-Z80

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From: Peter Tyers
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:41
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Can someone please point me to either a FAQ, an FTP site or a contact
who can help with the following.

We have a 4 port comms card (Gateway Communications WNIM-Z80 
copyright 1990) which was originally purchased to be used in a
Netware server. The only doco supplied was "Novell WNIM+
Adaptor Installation Guide" which describes a card not too
dissimilar to the card supplied (but DIP switches in different
spots etc) but gives no detailed port mapping information or
indications of method of operation.

We now want to install it in an NT3.5 Server to allow RAS
access. Unfortunately we dont know if the card is "smart"
and requiring a software driver or "dumb". If the latter
we need to find out the appropriate NT registry entries
for port address, Interrupt status register address, Port Index,
and possibly interrupt indexing if required. We can guess
from the doco we have what the I/O port address is (and how
to set it from the DIP switches) but all other information 
is lacking. The local (Australian) distributors have no more 
information on the board than that supplied to us.

Web surfing has produced an address www.gateway.com which might
be a home page for the manufacturer but it appears to be 
non-reachable.

Has anyone a template registry entry?
Does anyone know where a NT compatible driver exists, if required?
Has anyone ever installed one of these cards in an NT?
Can anyone give us any pointers to sources of information?


Thanks in advance


Peter Tyers
Telecom Research Laboratories
p.tyers@trl.oz.au 
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Subject: Help - Gateway Communications WNIM-Z80
Date: 31 Jan 1995 00:41:19 GMT
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