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Which display card and Network card?

Which display card and Network card?

Post by Dr. Joseph » Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:26:13



I am going to set up a NeXT machine and wonder which display card is better?
S3-805, or ATI Ultra Pro. At this moment, my demand is a 16bit color
screen at 800x600 resolution. Please post or email your advice.

I also have a question on network card, I have a 3C509 from 3Com, but
someone have suggested me to choose either SMC Elite or Intel EtherExpress.
Again, could someone enlighten me?

Please post it here, because these are FAQs. I try to find the answers from
ftp.next.com, but I can't get anything conclusive. Anyway, thanks in
advance.

--Joseph Ng--

Yes, I am from Hong Kong and will stay after 1997, too.

 
 
 
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Which display card and Network card?

Post by Michael Brant » Sun, 20 Mar 1994 14:47:31



Quote:> I am going to set up a NeXT machine and wonder which display card is better?
> S3-805, or ATI Ultra Pro. At this moment, my demand is a 16bit color
> screen at 800x600 resolution. Please post or email your advice.

> I also have a question on network card, I have a 3C509 from 3Com, but
> someone have suggested me to choose either SMC Elite or Intel EtherExpress.
> Again, could someone enlighten me?

We've had big problems w/ the 3com card. It regularly "locks up" in that you  
can't get any incoming  connections to work after about an hour of use. The  
SMC seems to work; haven't tried the intel....

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-Michael


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-Michael

 
 
 
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Which display card and Network card?

Post by Dr. Joseph » Thu, 24 Mar 1994 18:07:40


I received three email so far about which network card for NeXTSTEP.
They all recommended the Intel Express Card. Two of them told me that
the 3Com card hangs after about an hour.

As for display card, one told me that S3-805 is OK, and ATI Ultra Pro
is slow. The display card I mentioned are the local-bus version. I heard
that the PCI version is pretty fast.

Just a summary up to this point.

--Joe Ng--

 
 
 
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1. Trying to get RTL 8139 PC CARD network card working

Not having much luck getting my 8139-based PC CARD working.

It insists on reporting the following:

Base: 0x200/256
IRQ: 10

But both of these are very suspicious, because under Windows, the TI
Cardbus controller is reported as also having Irq 10 (can devices share
interrupts???), and there are several things in the IO port map at
0x200-0xFF.

I tried reassigning it as follows:

slay -f devp-pccard
devp-pccard -a 0xFA00 -l7

(irq 7 is free, and FA00 is where it was reported in Windows)

but when I do 'pin' again, the same values are reported

In my experience, when things like peripheral cards don't work properly,
it is usually a resource conflict. I can get it started using the
defaults, but it won't read/write to the network properly (the activity
light will go on, but you can't ping). I have set the tcpip parameters
correctly once it starts -- I just suspect the ports or IRQ are not set
right.

Any tips?

Thanks.

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