A2065 Ethernet

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Apr 16 21:44:06 2002

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:

> 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.

Does it have any P/Ns on it or anything? The place I would check first is
Thomas-Conrad.

Peace... Sridhar

> > > > > 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
> >
>
>
> lgwalker_at_mts.net
> bigwalk_ca_at_yahoo.com
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 21:44:06 BST