29 Jul
2005
29 Jul
'05
4:33 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 07:48 -0700, Lyle Bickley wrote:
2) Once you've got two workstations/servers
connected individually, then test
them together. Although I found IBM, Olicom and Thomas-Contrad to be very
compatible - I'd stick to one vendor until you've got at least two stations
communicating with each other. The drivers for each vendors product and
sometimes model are totally different. Be sure you are using the drivers
appropriate for each vendor's board.
I certainly used to have all sorts of trouble with drivers (and
different OSes). As Lyle says, keep it simple at first and get a link
running between two machines with the minimum of hardware in the middle
before adding more stuff.
ISTR finding that 5 or 6 years ago software for the Madge PCI cards
tended to be the least troublesome (just a shame that the Linux driver
was proprietary back then; maybe it isn't these days)
cheers
Jules