A2065 Ethernet

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Tue Apr 16 05:29:57 2002

 No. Peter Wendt's program for MCA cards is truly excellent and has
supplied the ADF for many unknown cards of mine but it didn't have this one.
 As a fan of MCA I've generally snapped up any I see, and most of the time
with no documentation.

Lawrence

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
> > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > > I also have an unknown MCA board by Pure Data copyrighted 1987 with
> > > > 4 BNC connectors. I had thought it might be an arcnet (which IIRC
> > > > PD was heavily involved with) board. Some sort of hub on a card.
> > >
> > > What kind of chips does it have on it? Usually you can identify a these
> > > kinds of boards based on the chips they use.
> >
> > It's looks like a fairly simple board and there are no significant
> > chips that you can see. The 4 port section chips and components are
> > encased in black plastic-like material, similar to what I've seen on
> > other NICs, each on it's own section of the board. It does have 4 LEDs
> > on the face of the card. To indicate activity I imagine. I tried Peter
> > Wendts MCA card i.d. program to no avail.
>
> That does sound like an arcnet card, although it could also be some sort
> of data acquisition interface. Many arcnet cards do have an epoxy encased
> module for some of the media interface circuitry.
>
> Do you have the .adf file for this board?
>
> -Toth
>


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