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to: RICHARD TOWN
from: MIKE BILOW
date: 1998-01-05 06:34:00
subject: anyone recognise this?

Richard Town wrote in a message to All:
 RT> Hi All...
 RT> Anyone recognise this network card?
 RT> WD8013EBT 16-bit edge with 15 way connector and BNC
 RT> Jumpers are for AUI (what is this?) and thin ethernet
 RT> with an IRQ jumper tag 3 4 5 7 2/9 10 11 15
 RT> A ROM jumper 16K 32K 64K NONE, an address jumper
 RT> C4000 C8000 D0000 with a ROM size jumper (but no
 RT> ROM chip)
 RT> It has a network address sticker with 0000C0 7F1307
This is a Western Digital 8013 Ethernet card.  WD sold the whole product line 
to SMC, and the drivers are available on the Internet at 
ttp://www.smc.com".
 RT> I've not done any LAN before so what are the 15-way
 RT> connector pinouts?  Can this be used as a domestic
 RT> LAN card with WfWg3.11?
AUI connectors, which are DB-15 style, are for Thick Ethernet.
What is a "domestic LAN card?"
 RT> With thanx from a LAN newbie for any reply...
 RT> Later,
 RT> Well, WfWG detects this as a SMC EtherCard Plus 16 with Boot
 RT> ROM So guess primary info wanted is:  can this card be used
 RT> with a "standard" LAN setup using the 15 way AUI connector
 RT> (and 'spose a termination is required on the BNC)?
You probably do not want to use the AUI connectors.  To use them, you would 
need transcievers that interfaced the DB-15 to your trunk coax, or you would 
at least need a converting transceiver that connected the DB-15 to one of the 
other flavors of Ethernet.
The card uses either the AUI or BNC connector, not both at the time.  The BNC 
connector is for standard Thin Ethernet.  You would need tee-connectors and 
terminators in order to use Thin Ethernet.
 RT> Incidentally, doing what I thought was an install with this
 RT> card, base memory address D0000 with base I/O port 280
 RT> IRQ10, Syschk does detect alright at the correct IRQ but MSD
 RT> not.
MSD is useless.  When you download the drivers disk for the card, it will 
have various utilities needed for configuration and diagnostics.
 
-- Mike
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