Re: Cardbus LAN support SCO 5.07

From: Mike Brown (mike_at_tkg.ca)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:21:14 -0400

G3WIP wrote:
>
> Do you know of a working Cardbus NIC and driver for SCO 5.07 to work on
> modern machines please?
>
> The non certified SiS 900 driver does not work on my Aspire 1700 Lugable
> which has a SIS 900 installed. So I thought I would use Cardbus slot and put
> a hardwired network card there.
>
> Belkin claimed they had a SCO certified driver
> http://www.belkin.com/network/F5D5010.html so I bought one, but it is not
> true. Belkin Level 3 support simply tell me the web site is wrong! It
> seems to be a Realtek 8139, but those drivers fail as well, probably because
> you have no control over device, function and bus numbers on installation.
>
> So I look at the SCO site to see their list of certified cardbus network
> cards, and then try and look for the drivers to see if they exist out there.
> Most manufacturer's sites do not mention any SCO support. Often the devices
> for sale have a different product number extension to the certified devices,
> so you are never certain that it will work.
>
> The modern devices are not listed in netconfig. Looking at sco's ftp driver
> sites it only list a few additions. I want to really know there is a
> working supported driver out their before I buy a card. I would not rely on
> the cdrom having the driver on it.
>
> So can anyone recommend a cardbus Network card that one can buy nowadays,
> that really works on modern machines with SC0 5.07
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerry Bulger
>
> --
> http://www.careprovider.com

I have been using a Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 model CBE2-100. You need to
download their driver, xbsco_1.tar. Try
xircom sco driver
in google for a few hits.

Mike 

-- 
Michael Brown
The Kingsway Group

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