I plan to get my 286 into my LAN (not internet...). I have this NIC, which might be fine. But I will need a packet driver for it. Does someone know this NIC? I tried google but hit mainly Linux infos.
Target is Windows 286 standard mode. Since WfW 3.11 won't run on the 286.
Hm, I found matze79's german tutorial on getting a 286 with tcp/ip into a network (http://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=9981), and I wonder if my card is NE2000 compatible. That would make things easy. I could also use the Boot ROM socket for my XT IDE BIOS. Would save a slot...
It won't hurt to try.
All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder
If generic ne2000 compatabel drivers dont work you can try putting it in a Win9x or 2000 PC and see what it detects it as
This thing will almost certainly support PIO-based NE2000, most likely also the faster WD83xxx shared-memory design. So drivers are relatively trivial.
Much bigger challenge: those jumpers. Unless the settings are documented on the back, you need to find documentation elsewhere.
When I get home today I need to hunt for one for another card. I'll keep an eye out for this card too.
The card appears to be a LONGSHINE Technologie GmbH LCS-8634PTB:
http://manual.longshine.de/3_Network_Driver/1 … rk/LCS-8634PTB/
The back of the card should have an explanation of the jumper settings:
That card looks like a good candidate to be used with ROM chips as well as you can set the address of the ROM at many addresses with jumpers. Not many cards have that option.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Just a last note to that problem:
There's also Windows for Workgroups 3.10..
WfW 3.10 does still work on a 286 in Standard Mode (just tried).
However, it only can use existing resources that other PCs provide (printers, network shares, etcc.).
For providing them, the 386 Enhanced Mode is still required.
Also, it can't use WfW 3.11 drivers or TCP/IP32 (there was a third party TCP/IP stack that worked).
And the network part is always on.
Anyway, just mention it for completeness. 😀
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http://manual.longshine.de/5_Old_Product_Driv … /1st-readme.txt - list of the drivers in http://manual.longshine.de/5_Old_Product_Drivers/LAN/
Not sure if there is a suitable packet driver in those
