From: Lucas Carey (lcarey@odd.bio.sunysb.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 10:13:39 EDT
Original Question:
> > I just installed an Asante 690 10/100 NIC into a pc and noticed when
> > configuring the kernel that it was a tulip-based card. Am I correct in
> > assuming that this will work in Tru64 v5.1a? I would love to be able to
> > bring our remaining 10Mb machines up to 100 for only $30/NIC. Has anyone
> > found a commondity NIC list similar to Hideaki Goto's video card list?
> > -Lucas
The suggestion is to go with the Intel EtherExpress card, which is
supported.
>From Dr. Blinn:
When we were Digital and designed and
manufactured the "tulip" chip family, we released clear documentation
on how to build cards that would be compatible with the drivers that
we were implementing for our systems. Some vendors chose to follow
the specs and build compatible cards; some did not. (In most cases,
the people chasing the "commodity PC market" did not, because it was
more expensive to build compatible cards and the PC market did not
care.) So you might get lucky, but you might not. The cards based
on the Intel EtherExpress chip (supported by the "ee" driver in V5.x)
are more likely to be compatible.
>From Jesper Frank Nemholt:
Even though the ethernet chip is a DEC Tulip 21x4x, it doesn't mean that
the card as a whole follow the same principles of the DEC Tulip cards.
For $30 I think you can get a Compaq/Intel 8255x card too. It's more
likely that this will work as the Compaq card in reality is a OEM version
of the Intel card, and the Compaq card is certified for Tru64 (man ee).
Secondly, the 8255x chipset is more recent technology.
Intel call them EtherExpress Pro100+, Compaq call them NC2100.
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