TCP/IP and ISOLINK e-net card

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3 total messages Started by Thor Legvold Thu, 01 Oct 1992 14:51

#776

Author: Thor Legvold
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 14:51

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Hi.
I need a driver - IBM support hasn't been too helpful.
I bought TCP/IP for OS/2, and have an ISOLINK (by BICC) 
IsoLan Ethernet card.  Unfortunately, TCP/IP doesn't come with
a driver.  Could a kind soul let me know if/where one exists???

(I thought the driver problems were solved after everyone
screamed at IBM for releasing support for only IBM printers
in os/2 1.[012]???  Not?)

Please e-mail replies.
Regards,
Thor
Legvold@alf.uib.no

Re: TCP/IP and ISOLINK e-net card

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Author: Nils-Eivind Naas
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 14:40

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In article <1992Oct1.145130.14140@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:


   Hi.
   I need a driver - IBM support hasn't been too helpful.
   I bought TCP/IP for OS/2, and have an ISOLINK (by BICC) 
   IsoLan Ethernet card.  Unfortunately, TCP/IP doesn't come with
   a driver.  Could a kind soul let me know if/where one exists???

   (I thought the driver problems were solved after everyone
   screamed at IBM for releasing support for only IBM printers
   in os/2 1.[012]???  Not?)

   Please e-mail replies.
   Regards,
   Thor
   Legvold@alf.uib.no

This is rapidly approaching the stature of an FAQ :-)

The status regarding BICC cards, as they were related to me by the 
Norwegian importer, is:

1) 3Com has bought out BICC
2) 3Com has stopped production of BICC cards
3) 3Com has stopped further development of BICC drivers, at least as far as
   OS/2 2.0 is concerned.

Next FAQ: Would YOU buy a 3Com 3C509 to replace your BICC cards ?

(FYI, CERN apparently has some 500 BICC cards, we only have 80 :-))

Nils-Eivind Naas, ISAF, Oslo, Norway   nen@isaf.no

Re: TCP/IP and ISOLINK e-net card

#789

Author: Larry Backman
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 17:32

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 >> 
 >> Next FAQ: Would YOU buy a 3Com 3C509 to replace your BICC cards ?
 >> 
That card makes a 3c503 look good :-)...

Its OS/2 NDIS driver does *not* reliably receive multiple back to back
packets from a fast machine such as a SPARC.  It is tuned to
be a Netware client, not a TCP client IMHO.


Larry Backman
FTP Software

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