Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> On 09/29/07 Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> How much was that Tyan Tomcat K8E?
>>     
>
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the word on multicard readers with floppy. I will 
> look for one.
>
> I got the Tomcat from Derek Keoughan  in 
> Canada. Derek sells systems with OS/2 installed. I bought the 
> BAR Board from him about 2 years ago for about $200.00, I 
> think. I put it in my existing system myself. I just bought 
> another on Ebay for $100.00. But be careful, the one I bought 
> is a slightly different model with no sound on board, and it 
> came without a back plane stiffener without which I cannot 
> mount a CPU heat sink. I believe that the technical department 
> at Tyan is sending me the part. Derek says that this board has 
> been made obsolete by the AMD AM2 socket boards.  These boards 
> will serve me well for a few years.
>
> Please tell me what a MAC is. Is it a brand of Ethernet chip 
> or is it something related only to remote booting or both.
>
> Martin
>   
Hi Martin,

I don't know whether you have lost (or never had) the printed manual for 
that tomcat motherboard, but I was quoting from looking at the manual 
available from Tyan as :

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2865_110.pdf

 From my reading - it's simply a matter of using a jumper to enable the 
use of that MAC item (I know nothing about those either - having never 
encountered one - yet) as the LAN2 connection - by default it's disabled.
I don't have any idea what driver you'd have to use for it! :-\

When I read above document I was under the impression it was part of the 
nVidia chipset - note the block diagrams in above.

I have noted in the past that one has to usually query with the seller 
exactly what is comprised with the items!

Regards,
Mike






 
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