ISA network card?

[Xcusme]

Re: ISA network card?

I'm glad you found what you need. As for the older non-plug/play cards, some may have had a software utility to set the port address and irq and save those settings in nonvolatile memory on the card. When all was said and done, you'd still have a 10Base-T card, not that it matters in some installations, but why go slow when for a few bucks you can get better throughput.

That dongle should work just fine in the USB 2.0 slot, it should downshift to the 1.1 spec anyway. As for the USB 2.0 card, you'll see big gains in data tranfer rates (over the USB 1.1 spec) if you connect an external HD etc.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: ISA network card?

As for the USB 2.0 card, you'll see big gains in data tranfer rates (over the USB 1.1 spec) if you connect an external HD etc.

That's what started this whole affair Xcusme. I got an external USB drive to replace my dead Firewire Drive. I made two attempts to replace the drive in the FireWire enclosure but both failed because I was buying ata 133 drives instead of ata 100. Now I have an original ata 100 Maxtor 5400 2 mb cache drive coming so I want to be able to stick the Firewire card back in and have both external drives available.

Because I had this ISA ethernet card I thought I could just pull the PCI ethernet, stick the PCI firewire drive back in and move the ethernet to the ISA. WRONG

Now with the dongle, I can have my cake and eat it too.

 

[Drrockter]

Re: ISA network card?

Glad it's working.

For the record I can't say dongle with a straight face. It's just way wrong.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: ISA network card?

Kewl! The Dongle Did It! I'm typing this via my Dongle Driven 400 mhz PII antique. All other features are working as well. (such as my new USB 2.0 external harddrive) Device Mgr also confirms my FireWire adaptor is working as well. Thank goodness for USB 2.0 adaptor cards and Dongles.

Seems, with all your help, I've made a silk purse out of a sows ear.8)

 

[ndemge]

Re: ISA network card?

Boomyal...

My home machine is a 333mhz with 196mb

...With the IDE Raid card for all the hard drives (320 gigs worth)

No reason to let the ole antique go.

 

[Paul Moir]

Re: ISA network card?

My "new" computer is an UltraSparc 1 (167MHz). Runs gnome fine!

 

[Boomyal]

Re: ISA network card?

My "new" computer is an UltraSparc 1 (167MHz). Runs gnome fine!

isn't that going backward Paul?

 

[i386]

Re: ISA network card?

FWIW...

Some of those old cards had jumpers. And I believe the PNP feature could be turned on and off.

Here's the tricky part... Some of those old cards were jumperless. You had to boot a floppy that came with the card and change settings on the card's bios. You could set them to PNP or configure the IRQ manually.

I see the poster found an alternate solution I just though I'd throw that out there. Personally, I hope I never have to see another ISA card.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: ISA network card?

Yeah, i386. It all amounted to another career to understand the old stuff. I am glad we got by it with some of the later technology. I had limited energy to deal with the early stuff.

I took the above advise and went with the DONGLE.