386SX wrote on 2020-07-21, 20:32:

Hi,

I've found on another known vintage computer forum a 8bit modded NE2000.COM driver I'm trying to work with my card and it seems to give me back the Mac address of the card so it should work. Considering it's the only driver I've found and I suppose the original may not work into a 8bit ISA bus with the usual PnP or not-PnP 16bit card, are there any others known common similar driver already fully tested by other users?
Thanks

I had good experiences with the chipset manufacturer provided drivers for Realtek based card. Pretty sure a packet driver was among those . Not sure about any specific issues related to use in an 8-bit slot .

What chipset does your card use ?

darry wrote on 2020-07-21, 21:51:

386SX wrote on 2020-07-21, 20:32:

Hi,

I've found on another known vintage computer forum a 8bit modded NE2000.COM driver I'm trying to work with my card and it seems to give me back the Mac address of the card so it should work. Considering it's the only driver I've found and I suppose the original may not work into a 8bit ISA bus with the usual PnP or not-PnP 16bit card, are there any others known common similar driver already fully tested by other users?
Thanks

I had good experiences with the chipset manufacturer provided drivers for Realtek based card. Pretty sure a packet driver was among those . Not sure about any specific issues related to use in an 8-bit slot .

What chipset does your card use ?

The one I'm using now is a Allied Telesyn AT2000B PnP card NE2000 clone I suppose.

Then a:
Kingston KNE2021LC EtherRx LC ISA 16 bit PnP
Netware Yes ISA with jumpers or PnP config 16bit too..

but all have stickers on the chips so I'm not sure the exact model of the chip itself. Do you mean probably the original driver may work in a 8bit bus too? But the NE2000 packet driver wasn't a third party driver or it came also with the original installation disks?

386SX wrote on 2020-07-21, 22:12:

The one I'm using now is a Allied Telesyn AT2000B PnP card NE2000 clone I suppose. […]
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darry wrote on 2020-07-21, 21:51:

386SX wrote on 2020-07-21, 20:32:

Hi,

I've found on another known vintage computer forum a 8bit modded NE2000.COM driver I'm trying to work with my card and it seems to give me back the Mac address of the card so it should work. Considering it's the only driver I've found and I suppose the original may not work into a 8bit ISA bus with the usual PnP or not-PnP 16bit card, are there any others known common similar driver already fully tested by other users?
Thanks

I had good experiences with the chipset manufacturer provided drivers for Realtek based card. Pretty sure a packet driver was among those . Not sure about any specific issues related to use in an 8-bit slot .

What chipset does your card use ?

The one I'm using now is a Allied Telesyn AT2000B PnP card NE2000 clone I suppose.

Then a:
Kingston KNE2021LC EtherRx LC ISA 16 bit PnP
Netware Yes ISA with jumpers or PnP config 16bit too..

but all have stickers on the chips so I'm not sure the exact model of the chip itself. Do you mean probably the original driver may work in a 8bit bus too? But the NE2000 packet driver wasn't a third party driver or it came also with the original installation disks?

I mean the original chip-specific drivers might well work in 8-bit mode .

The NE2000 packet driver you are using might be a third party one . I really can't guess.

Unless you feel strongly against it, I would peel the stickers off to see what you are actually dealing with . The you could try some chip specific drivers rather that generic NE2000 ones .

darry wrote on 2020-07-21, 23:38:

I mean the original chip-specific drivers might well work in 8-bit mode . […]
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386SX wrote on 2020-07-21, 22:12:

The one I'm using now is a Allied Telesyn AT2000B PnP card NE2000 clone I suppose. […]
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darry wrote on 2020-07-21, 21:51:

I had good experiences with the chipset manufacturer provided drivers for Realtek based card. Pretty sure a packet driver was among those . Not sure about any specific issues related to use in an 8-bit slot .

What chipset does your card use ?

The one I'm using now is a Allied Telesyn AT2000B PnP card NE2000 clone I suppose.

Then a:
Kingston KNE2021LC EtherRx LC ISA 16 bit PnP
Netware Yes ISA with jumpers or PnP config 16bit too..

but all have stickers on the chips so I'm not sure the exact model of the chip itself. Do you mean probably the original driver may work in a 8bit bus too? But the NE2000 packet driver wasn't a third party driver or it came also with the original installation disks?

I mean the original chip-specific drivers might well work in 8-bit mode .

The NE2000 packet driver you are using might be a third party one . I really can't guess.

Unless you feel strongly against it, I would peel the stickers off to see what you are actually dealing with . The you could try some chip specific drivers rather that generic NE2000 ones .

Some update: for the AT2000BT I found on the archived homepage of the Allied Telesyn company at least the name of the drivers file and found it online and there's after the usual NT/W95 directories also a Packet one with its own .COM file I'm going to test, still I've to see what's under the sticker on the chip cause I've already installed it on the case.
But the other card, the YES Netware PnP one has a Realtek RTL8019AS and it has jumpers even if the jumper pcb printed guide table seems not entirely correct compared to the number of jumper on board... anyway..

Update again: The AT2000pnp setup package works natively with the 8bit ISA bus! There's even a diagnostic tool for it to disable PnP and set our own config. Perfect! I suppose I'll let this card inside so I don't have to use third party packet drivers.
The card is seen with its own mac address and the packet driver itself report the 8bit bus connection. 😀
There're also Windows for Workgroup 3.1 and 3.11 drivers but I've Windows 3.1 the standard one. Will I get to install them anyway or I just need the packet driver loaded at boot?
Thanks