No more Corman cards

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I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx support
for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does anyone have any
recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin

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They still list the products on their website. Are you sure?

Glenn

Kevin Miller wrote:

I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx support
for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does anyone have any
recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin

3

As for replacement, have you checked the hardware support pages at QNX
home? There is a lot of possibilities and I myself can recommend e.g. SMC
2104x based PCI controllers or D-Link ISA controllers. Both have been
working without difficulties when configured properly. About availability I
cannot say anything, but at least you can find them in auctions. Of course
there is always a risk but in my mind quite low. If you are going to bid,
only check as accurately as possible that the seller knows what he is
selling.
Then just to check, Corman is no longer selling the Arcnet cards. Aren’t
you possibly talking about them? If you need one I could sell at a
reasonable price :slight_smile:. At least I have one with boot rom, version 2.4. If
you need more, I can check but I must still keep a couple for spares.
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Glenn Borowski
<glenn.borowski@crystalcc.com> wrote:

They still list the products on their website. Are you sure?

Glenn

Kevin Miller wrote:
I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx
support for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does
anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin
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–
Juho Joensuu

4

One of our maintenance managers tried to buy some replacement Corman cards,
and was told that they didn’t make Ethernet cards anymore. So, one of our
engineers called Corman, and spoke with the owner, who confirmed that they
had gotten out of the Ethernet NIC business altogether. However, just to be
sure I will doublecheck myself.

Thanks,

Kevin

“Juho Joensuu” <juho.joensuu@softsys.fi> wrote in message
news:opsg8qj9o0ksn0pc@inn.qnx.com…

As for replacement, have you checked the hardware support pages at QNX
home? There is a lot of possibilities and I myself can recommend e.g. SMC
2104x based PCI controllers or D-Link ISA controllers. Both have been
working without difficulties when configured properly. About availability
I cannot say anything, but at least you can find them in auctions. Of
course there is always a risk but in my mind quite low. If you are going
to bid, only check as accurately as possible that the seller knows what he
is selling.
Then just to check, Corman is no longer selling the Arcnet cards. Aren’t
you possibly talking about them? If you need one I could sell at a
reasonable price > :slight_smile:> . At least I have one with boot rom, version 2.4. If
you need more, I can check but I must still keep a couple for spares.
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Glenn Borowski
glenn.borowski@crystalcc.com> > wrote:

They still list the products on their website. Are you sure?

Glenn

Kevin Miller wrote:
I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx
support for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does
anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin



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Juho Joensuu

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I have used Intel PRO/100 S cards. NOT the Pro/1000
They seem to work good.
They use the Net.ether82557 driver. (from 4.25D or above)

-Glenn


“Kevin Miller” <kevin.miller@transcore.com> wrote in message
news:cme8e6$t3q$1@inn.qnx.com…

I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx support
for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does anyone have
any
recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Does anyone have a boot ROM solution that works as well as the QNX Corman
boot?


“Kevin Miller” <kevin.miller@transcore.com> wrote in message
news:cme8e6$t3q$1@inn.qnx.com…

I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx support
for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does anyone have
any recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin

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We use Intel card with bootp without any issue, aside the increase
complexity and the need for TCP/IP

“Jeffrey Adler” <jeffadler.at.bigfoot.dot.com@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:cn0n7c$gi6$1@inn.qnx.com…

Does anyone have a boot ROM solution that works as well as the QNX Corman
boot?


“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:cme8e6$t3q$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx support
for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does anyone have
any recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin
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Can you provide me with more information??

Where do you get the bootp ROM? Which Intel card. Does it still work with
netboot (or buildqnx)?

What do I do to set up TCP/IP for the boot requests?

Thanks, Mario.

Jeff Adler


“Mario Charest” <nowheretobefound@8thdimension.com> wrote in message
news:cn1cf6$1lg$1@inn.qnx.com…

We use Intel card with bootp without any issue, aside the increase
complexity and the need for TCP/IP

“Jeffrey Adler” <> jeffadler.at.bigfoot.dot.com@nowhere.com> > wrote in
message news:cn0n7c$gi6$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Does anyone have a boot ROM solution that works as well as the QNX Corman
boot?


“Kevin Miller” <> kevin.miller@transcore.com> > wrote in message
news:cme8e6$t3q$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I was surprised to find out recently that Corman is no longer in the
Ethernet card business. As we have depended upon them for QNX 4.xx
support for some time, we are now trying to find a replacement. Does
anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,

Kevin


\

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Jeffrey Adler wrote:

Where do you get the bootp ROM? Which Intel card. Does it still work with
netboot (or buildqnx)?

I’d suggest using Etherboot (http://www.etherboot.org/).

If you have access to an E-Prom burner, you can get a pre-built ROM image
at http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ (click on the uppermost production release
number; this will take you to a page where you can select your card).
Almost any Ethernet card you can think of is supported…

What do I do to set up TCP/IP for the boot requests?

If you download the source code, you’ll find a detailed description
including examples in the sub-directory contrib/mkQNXnbi/

HTH
Cheers
Anders

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From our maintenance guy:

I have a supplier for the Corman Network cards, Two employees from Corman
have formed their own company with Cormans blessing and are supplying a Card
with QNX drivers 4.23 and up.

P/N FE-124 Network card

B&E Technologies
No 8 Victoria Glen Street
Elmira, ON Canada N3B1S1
Www.BEtech.biz
Atten Bert Menkveld

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Hello all,

Thanks to the anonymous poster for mentioning us.

It is true that Corman has sold its QNX networking products to B&E
Technologies. We are two former Corman employees who thought this was too
useful a business to just let it disappear.

We are supplying essentially the same networking products that Corman
Technologies did, just under a different company name. That means we
provide network adapters with QNX 4 network drivers, and also QNX 4 boot
ROMs for those network adapters. Though we are still busy setting up our
business, we have started to ship some product.

You can contact us at:

B&E Technologies
8 Victoria Glen St.
Elmira, Ontario, Canada
N3B 1S1

Phone: 519-669-0950
Fax: 519-669-2880
E-mail: bert@betech.biz

We have also started building a web site (www.betech.biz), though it is
still very much under construction.

I would be glad to hear from anyone interested in QNX networking products.
We plan to branch out into Gigabit Ethernet, and also hope to provide QNX 6
drivers in the future.

–
Bert Menkveld
P.Eng.
B&E Technologies
bert@betech.biz

P.S. It’s good to see a lot of familiar names still participating in this
newsgroup.


<noname@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:coiopv$ql6$1@inn.qnx.com…

From our maintenance guy:

I have a supplier for the Corman Network cards, Two employees from Corman
have formed their own company with Cormans blessing and are supplying a
Card
with QNX drivers 4.23 and up.

P/N FE-124 Network card

B&E Technologies
No 8 Victoria Glen Street
Elmira, ON Canada N3B1S1
Www.BEtech.biz
Atten Bert Menkveld

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OK, these cards are obsolete…but I have no idea how to set the
switches.
I do have a known good card running on node 5 that has switches 5, 7,
8 and 10 in the ON position. I need to set another card to node 7.
(this computer was working at one time but someone changed the
switches).
Anyone know about this???
DonE.

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Send an email to

Bert Menkveld
P. Eng.
B&E Technologies
bert@betech.biz
Ph: 519-669-0950

DonE wrote:

OK, these cards are obsolete…but I have no idea how to set the
switches.
I do have a known good card running on node 5 that has switches 5, 7,
8 and 10 in the ON position. I need to set another card to node 7.
(this computer was working at one time but someone changed the
switches).
Anyone know about this???
DonE.

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DonE wrote:

OK, these cards are obsolete…but I have no idea how to set the
switches.
I do have a known good card running on node 5 that has switches 5, 7,
8 and 10 in the ON position. I need to set another card to node 7.
(this computer was working at one time but someone changed the
switches).
Anyone know about this???
DonE.

Obsolete! No no, amazing as it may seem, we’re still making these. We took
over Corman’s network products about 2-and-a-half years ago.

The node number is not set with the DIP switches at all. When you boot the
computer, you’ll see a message “Node N” in the middle of the screen. If you
press ESC twice at this point, you’ll see the card’s configuration menu.
You can set the node number, interrupt, and some other things using this
menu.

The only thing you really use the switches for is to set the card’s memory
address, which is done using switches 4, 5, and 6. The rest should be set
as follows. A bit hard to read, maybe. If you want, send me an e-mail
(bert@betech.biz) and I’ll send you the manual for the current version of
this card.


The default switch settings are:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
off off off off on off on on off on off off


Switch Setting
4 5 6 Memory Address
off on on CA00:0000
off off off CC00:0000
on off off CE00:0000
on on on D600:0000
off on off DC00:0000
on on off DE00:0000
off off on EC00:0000
on off on EE00:0000


Regards,

Bert

–
Bert Menkveld
P. Eng.
B&E Technologies
bert@betech.biz
Ph: 519-669-0950