On 10/03/07 09:40 am Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

>> You're probably thinking of a MAC address, that's a unique hardware 
>> address that's built into every network card. 

> Unbingo! I know what a MAC address is. My router, cable modem, 
> and probably my TV and refrigerator, each have one. My MB has
> 
> "one nForce integrated MAC with Marvell 88E1111-CAA Gigabit 
> Ethernet PHY."
> 
> Thank goodness I didn't ask what a PHY is!
> 
> I believe that the quoted reference
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Access_Control>
> 
> has put me on the right track. It think that most MBs do not 
> have their own MAC address and their Ethernet packets contain 
> the MAC address of their modem or router. Perhaps my MB does 
> have a unique MAC that the Marvell chip puts into messages 
> that it sends over the Ethernet cable. Anyway, I suspect that 
> if I could find a proper OS/2 driver for it I could use the 
> Marvell chip for Ethernet connections. I am now in over my head.


I don't know what motherboard you have (I haven't really been followinf 
this thread), but it sounds as though it could have the same (or 
similar) chipset as my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, whose networking is 
supported by Nickk's NVETH driver, the latest version of which is at

http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/network/nveth-0.0.4.zip

HTH

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Alan


 
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