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Contents:
This document contains compatibility listings and notes for the
following manufacturers' systems:
- LEADING EDGE
- MCCI
- NEC
- NORTHGATE
- OLIVETTI
- OMEGA
- PC CLONE
- PC LTD
- SAMSUNG
- TANDY
- TOSHIBA
- TRICORD
- UNISYS
- VLSI
- XEROX
- ZENITH
For further listings, order the following documents.
EtherExpress Adapters: Computer Compatibilities A - D Document 6420
EtherExpress Adapters: Computer Compatibilities E - K Document 6424
Laser 386 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Family of adapters
Other: Laser 386
Symptom:
PC fails or hangs on the onboard diags DRAM test in SOFTSET.
Description:
I/O timing problems on the Laser motherboard.
Solution:
Jumper JP5 on the motherboard should short pins 1 and 2 (low I/O), pins
2 and 3 should not be shorted (high I/O).
Leading Edge Model D, MBX/12 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 and 16TP adapters
Compatibility: Conditional
Symptom:
Customer reports that SOFTSET will not work in a Leading Edge Model D
and the Leading Edge MBX/12 286. SOFTSET reports that a NIC is not
detected.
Solution:
Configuring the NIC in another machine and setting the I/O to 350 should
fix the problem.
Maximus 486/22 DLS EtherExpress 16 Family
The Maximus 486/33 DLC machine will not work with the EtherExpress
Family of adapters or any other type of ethernet card. This is a
problem with the machine. IPX and NETX will execute but the computer
hangs during login or slist.
MCCI Motherboard EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16TP Network Adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
MCCI reports the EtherExpress 16TP card showed problems with their chip
set (by Contaq V82C596). This is a problem on the Rev 0 mother board
and changing to a Rev A mother board solves the problem.
Morse Motherboard EtherExpress 16 Family
Customer reports that SoftSet fails diagnostics on a machine with a
Morse motherboard in a low-profile type box with Award Bios, expansion
bus on a daughter board, and DOS ODI driver v2.x. This is a 16-bit bus
timing issue and the EtherExpress card must be forced to 8-bit mode.
NCR 3230 (486 DX33) EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress Family of adapters
Symptom:
Various errors from SOFTSET including unprogrammed EEPROM.
Description:
VGA may be set at I/O 300 causing a conflict with the EtherExpress card.
Solution:
Put the EtherExpress card in another PC. Change its I/O to other than
300. Move the card back to the original PC and try again.
NEC Powermate 325 W/Pheonix BIOS 1.01 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Family of Adapters
Compatibility: Conditional
Based on a customer report, SOFTSET may return the error: "Board not
found" when run on a NEC Powermate 325 with Pheonix BIOS 1.01
(1985-1990) with an EtherExpress card installed. There is an i/o
address conflict because the serial and parallel ports are set to i/o
address 300 which is also the default i/o address for the EtherExpress
cards. To solve this problem, change the i/o address for the serial and
parallel ports in the cmos setup to 2fh.
NEC Image 433 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Network Adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
NEC tested an EtherExpress 16 card containing an 8100 boot rom with an
NEC IMAGE 433 machine. SOFTSET would not allow the user to set up the
EtherExpress card and gave an unprogrammed EEPROM error. This problem
is caused by the 1.0026 BIOS in the NEC IMAGE 433 machines. Upgrading
these machines with the 1.0036 BIOS will solve the problem. Download
the new BIOS from the NEC BBS, then follow the upgrade instructions in
the NEC manual.
NEC Ultralite Versa Docking Station EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 TP adatper
Compatibility: Conditional
Reported by: Customer
Symptom:
The PC will attach to the network but runs really slow or the PC will
attach to the network and run for a few minutes, then lose the network
connection.
Solution:
No known solution is know at this time.
Northgate 486 50 EtherExpress 32 ADAPTER
Product:
EtherExpress 32 Network Adapter
Compatibility: conditional
*Customer Report*
Requirements: Slot 8 is a non bus mastering slot. Slot 6 worked fine.
OLIVETTI M24 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 and 16TP
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that the Olivetti M24 is incompatible with the
EtherExpress cards. The Olivetti M24 is similar to the AT&T 6300.
These machines are not 100% IBM compatible.
There has been a report that the newer cards/drivers work in these
machines.
Olivetti 486 Multi-Processor EISA EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16, 16TP, 16C, and FlashC cards (ISA only)
Compatibility: Incompatible
Reported by: INGRAM LABS
The EtherExpress card fails SoftSet's on-board diagnostics (82586
test) and hangs the computer. The Olivetti 486 multi-processor EISA is
a 10-slot EISA and does not need slot-specific I/O above Axxx, so the
machine blocks out all I/O addresses above Axxx. The EtherExpress cards
use shadow memory in the Cxxx range for communicating with the ethernet
controller (82586). Since this machine blocks out Cxxx addresses,
SOFTSET's diagnostic test fails. There is no solution. The
EtherExpress ISA cards are incompatible with this machine.
Omega 386 33 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16TP adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that Omega 386 33 with AMI BIOS failed the diagnostic
responder test. By changing the "Scratch RAM option" from the default
"using BIOS stack area at 0030:0000" to "Reducing base memory by 1k" the
card worked fine. (Note: The card may still have to be in 8bit mode)
PC LTD 286 12MHZ (Early Dell) EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16TP Network Adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that the PC LTD system hangs with the EtherExpress 16TP
card when the system tries to access the local hard drive. Customer
received error messages "drive not ready" or "invalid command.com".
Customer reported that booting from a floppy seemed to work.
Samsung SD330 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 and 16TP Network Adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that the Samsung SD330 with the EtherExpress card will
not boot from the hard drive to the network. Disabling the Real Time
clock and removing the driver for it, allowed the card to work in this
computer.
Toshiba Deskstation Docking Station EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Network Adapter
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that this machine will work with the EtherExpress 16
card if the card is forced to 8-bit operation. Another customer could
not get the card to work at all, but could not get any card to work!
Tricord ES5000 EtherExpress 16 Family
Symptom:
Workstation loses connection when using load balancing on file server.
Configuration:
TRICORD Powerframe ES5000 file server
Two or more Flash32's in the server
BALANCE.NLM and STATS.NLM from National Statistics INC.
No problems expericenced if BALANCE.NLM is not loaded.
Description:
BUS master problem compounded by BALANCE.NLM.
Solution:
Set ON=30 and OFF=30 when loading the FL32.LAN drivers on the file
server. User was able to run six FLASH32 adapters in the system using
these settings.
Note: FlashSet is not compatible with the TRICORD ES5000. FlashSet
damages the NVRAM of the system. Either preconfigure the
Flash32 with ECU and disable Flash, or remove the Flash chip
from the adapter.
UMC 486 4SLUD Version 1.0 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Network Adapter
Compatibility: conditional
Reported by: Confirmed UMC Systems
Symptom:
After booting system, video is strange with ascii characters and
different colors showing. SOFTSET shows irg15 being active and can't
write to the EEPROM.
Description:
Slots 6 and 7 are not true ISA compatible slots.
Solution:
Don't put the EtherExpress cards in slots 6 or 7.
UNISYS AT EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 Network Adapter
Compatibility: Compatible
The EtherExpress 16 card must be in memory mapped mode to work with the
Unisys AT machine running at 10mhz. If the Unisys AT machine is running
at 8mhz, the EtherExpress 16 card does not have to be in memory mapped
mode.
Machines without aE hard drive:
SOFTSET cannot be run from a floppy drive. For SOFTSET to run, a
configuration file has to be created on another machine and the
/load parameter for SOFTSET has to be used. The SOFTSET command
syntax is: SOFTSET /LOAD=PATH/FILE.CFG.
Xerox 6060 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16TP Network Adapter
Compatibility: Incompatible
Customer reports that the EtherExpress 16TP card would not work in this
machine. He tried all I/Os and multiple machines with multiple cards!
Xerox XNS EtherExpress 16 Family
Not compatible.
Zenith 286 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16TP Network Adapter
Compatibility: Incompatible
Customer reports that all IRQs, all I/Os and even forcing 8-bit mode
failed with this machine and our EtherExpress 16TP card.
Zenith 386 EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 and 16TP Network Adapters
Compatibility: Conditional
Customer reports that a Zenith 386 computer with the EtherExpress 16
card installed in it, would lock up within 2 minutes of logging into a
NetWare* 3.10 server.
Forcing the card to 8-bit mode solved the problem.
Zenith 486Sx Model Z425F PLUS EtherExpress 16 Family
Product:
EtherExpress 16 and 16TP Network Adapters
Compatibility: Conditional
Symptom:
Customer reports that the Zenith 486SX Model Z425F PLUS will not stay
attached to the network
Solution:
Forcing the card to 8-bit solved the problem.
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