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  • IBM LAN Adapter/A with Win95?

    From William Murray@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 11 17:13:54 2023
    I'm looking to install Windows 95 on my 8580 (yes I know a bit impractical, but it does at least have a Hypertec 486 board), and I was wondering what MCA LAN cards have support. I heard the best MCA LAN card for most purposes is the LAN Adapter/A, but I
    only have heard of people running this with DOS, Windows 3.1, and OS/2. Does anyone know if it works under Windows 95?

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to William Murray on Sun Mar 12 05:43:56 2023
    Haven't run W95 in over 15 years, but isn't the LAN Adapter /A directly supported by W95?

    William Murray wrote:
    I'm looking to install Windows 95 on my 8580 (yes I know a bit impractical, but it does at least have a Hypertec 486 board), and I was wondering what MCA LAN cards have support. I heard the best MCA LAN card for most purposes is the LAN Adapter/A, but
    I only have heard of people running this with DOS, Windows 3.1, and OS/2. Does anyone know if it works under Windows 95?


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Mar 12 18:19:58 2023
    On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 6:43:41 AM UTC-4, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Haven't run W95 in over 15 years, but isn't the LAN Adapter /A directly supported by W95?
    William Murray wrote:
    I'm looking to install Windows 95 on my 8580 (yes I know a bit impractical, but it does at least have a Hypertec 486 board), and I was wondering what MCA LAN cards have support. I heard the best MCA LAN card for most purposes is the LAN Adapter/A,
    but I only have heard of people running this with DOS, Windows 3.1, and OS/2. Does anyone know if it works under Windows 95?

    I have an 8580 with Reply TurboBoard in it, running Win95. I've actually been fiddling with it these past couple of weeks and it runs great! I'm pretty sure I didn't even install a driver, Win95 picked it up out of the box.

    Make sure you set you the Adapter BIOS-ROM / RAM Location to one of the larger 32k values like: D8000-DFFFF I had to jumble around the addresses of the the other cards to make it work, but I noticed a huge performance hit otherwise.

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  • From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 13 00:03:00 2023
    At least on Win98SE the adapter is not in the included drivers list, and I thought they had similar drivers with 95.
    The latest available driver from IBM is for Win3x.
    Using the "New Hardware Wizard" (not the "Install Network Adapter" wizard from the network settings!) and pointing it to <DriverLocation>\DOS when asked copies the NDIS2 driver and installs the network card under 98SE (haven't tried on 95, but would
    expect similar).

    But wanderer beware: It is a 16-bit DOS mode driver being used under a 32-bit operating system, with a noticable performance penalty.
    Reading a huge, linear file over the network gave me around 890 kbps, while the 3com 529-TP gave me a solid megabyte.
    I wouldn't be surprised if this is because of the network compatibility mode. Indeed possible the LAN/A performs better under Win3x or Linux with proper drivers though.

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