How to order NIC according to known chipset ?

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I can know the chipsets that are supportted by QNX4, how can we find the
correct NIC card according these chipsets? Thanks

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In article <9rc0r2$jqr$1@inn.qnx.com>, linhm@uwyo.edu says…

I can know the chipsets that are supportted by QNX4, how can we find the
correct NIC card according these chipsets? Thanks
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You cannot. Often, many different vendor’s cards will use the same
chipset.
The best you can do is to look at the card (physically) and determine the
chipset on the card. Then see if any driver supports that chipset.
(There can be issues with “secondary” or MII chipsets on NICs also.)
Usually the biggest chip on the NIC has a clear marking of what it is.
It is almost always the “chipset” for that card.

Stephen Munnings
Software Developer
Corman Technologies Inc.

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The options that we use:

  1. Buy SBC’s from an ISO9001 company that builds industrial boards long-term
    for major
    companies that has the ethernet onboard. These are typically 82557/82559
    (Intel 815E).
    You get the notices on changes of anything onboard (if you ask for it) and
    they build them
    for years usually… We have one SBC that has had 2 changes in 4 years.

  2. Buy from a reputable company that makes cards with known chipsets that
    are
    supported. Corman is one of those companies (ISA and PCI) and we buy all
    of our network cards from them for our non-windozes systems.

Jay

“Stephen Munnings” <steve@cormantech.com> wrote in message
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In article <9rc0r2$jqr$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >, > linhm@uwyo.edu > says…
I can know the chipsets that are supportted by QNX4, how can we find the
correct NIC card according these chipsets? Thanks




You cannot. Often, many different vendor’s cards will use the same
chipset.
The best you can do is to look at the card (physically) and determine the
chipset on the card. Then see if any driver supports that chipset.
(There can be issues with “secondary” or MII chipsets on NICs also.)
Usually the biggest chip on the NIC has a clear marking of what it is.
It is almost always the “chipset” for that card.

Stephen Munnings
Software Developer
Corman Technologies Inc.

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“Jay Hogg” <Jay.Hogg@t-netix.com> wrote in message
news:9rccgs$r1q$1@inn.qnx.com…

  1. Buy from a reputable company that makes cards with known chipsets that
    are
    supported. Corman is one of those companies (ISA and PCI) and we buy all
    of our network cards from them for our non-windozes systems.

In fact, at Corman we ship all our networks cards with a QNX driver, so that
you’re always guaranteed to get a card that “just works” with QNX. You can
check out our products at www.cormantech.com.

Regards,

Bert Menkveld
Engineer (and amateur sales guy :slight_smile:
Corman Technologies Inc.