[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar printout DONE! - need ISA ethernet card

[Michael Brutman]

All you need is a card with a packet driver.  A card from the list you have
there should be readily available.  You can also use a packet driver "shim"
on top of ODI drivers for later cards.

Contact me directly if you have problems, including weird crashes or
performance problems.  It is almost always hardware or a noisy network, but
I still like to root cause the problems and help fix them.  mTCP has a
fairly comprehensive trace and debugging mechanism built into it.

(The most recent tricky problem was somebody using a packet driver shim on
top of ODI drivers; the ODI layer did not have enough available buffers so
at small MTU settings and high speeds it was dropping packets, which was
horrible for performance.  Increasing the buffers at the ODI layer made the
machine run at full speed, which was over 850KB/sec sending and receiving
on a 386-40.)




On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 10:25 AM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> Any card with a packet driver should work. Back in the day, we got many
> cheap ne2000 clones to work with Microsoft TCP/IP 1.0a.
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:21 PM Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> > Will toss it into the truck for the next trip south just in case - will
> > leave on top the server rack in CDL for pickup.
> >
> > martin
> >
> > On 2/28/2021 1:17 PM, Andrew Diller wrote:
> > > Good question. MikeB would know, I can only test it :)
> > >
> > > I have not used mTCP before but hope to get something on the network,
> > because getting the data for print-outs is the other half of the
> problem...
> > >
> > > -andy
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Feb 28, 2021, at 1:13 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Andy,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 3COM ETHERLINK III 3C509B-TP work?
> > >>
> > >> Martin
> > >>
> > >> On 2/28/2021 1:06 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > >>> OK that is useful. I am going to try to get some PC (one of the
> compaq
> > luggables) setup at VCF w/ networking (mTCP) and wordPerfect. Then tested
> > to print to a VCF decwriter and some parallel printer (daisy wheel).
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Speaking of such, I will request that if any members have a
> compatible
> > card for mTCP:
> > >>>
> > >>> Novell NE1000, NE2000 and clones
> > >>> 3Com 3C503
> > >>> WD/SMC 8003 series
> > >>> Intel EtherExpress 8/16
> > >>> Davicom DM9008F
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Would they consider donating an extra to VCF for this effort? I'm not
> > aware of any cards at VCF for this. If you coming to VCF repair day
> please
> > consider bringing it!
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.
> > >>>
> > >>> -andy
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Feb 28, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> FYI - Here is a post I made with a quick how-to print ascii files
> the
> > >>>> DecWriter II, back in 2014
> > >>>> https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=557
> > >>>> Bill
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:38 PM Dean Notarnicola via
> vcf-midatlantic
> > <
> > >>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Eak!!!
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:32 PM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic <
> > >>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> They say loud irritating noises keep rodents away... so there's
> > that. :)
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 9:07 AM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic
> <
> > >>>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Also remind me to never get into a printer competition with Mike
> > >>>>> Loewen,
> > >>>>>>> those are some monster printers I saw on that page (for having at
> > your
> > >>>>>>> house)...
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> >
>