EtherPower is EtherCrap

[BobSmith]

Hi everybody,

Anyone notice that SMC stuff just doesn't work half... er... all the time?

I own an EtherPower 8432 and I cannot get it working under Win95 using any 32-bit drivers... in fact, it crashes even with 16-bit drivers. (VxD stuffens...)

Anyone ever get one of these things working with Link-test disabled mode, 32-bit drivers in '95? In DOS, my 16-bit drivers work fine. Too bad all it can do is play Quake, Doom and RotT. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum2/smile.gif (I wanna netWORK dammit!)

L8r all...

-BobSmith

[WTJ]

Originally posted by :


I'm inclined to agree.
Had no problem when I 1st installed W95OSR2,
I let w95 ID the board as a DEC based
something or other,
but an upgrade to IE5.5 stepped on it and gave me vnetsup.vxd problems on boot.

(BTW: a search on MS Support for vnetsup.vxd
has a regedit (from the startup command line)
fix for that)

I downed SMC's 4meg + of "Superdisk" and
tried to install,
but found a caution to switch the
"netpci.inf" in W95 with the
"netpci.inf" on the "superdisk".
THERE WAS NO SUCH FILE IN THE DOWNLOAD.

Following the rest of the instructions,
proved worthless,
so I guess I'll try to get the system to
ID the board as a "DEC based 24??" unit
again.

Wish I could get the job that the editor
of the "superdisk" has.

I'd love to get paid for dumping a bunch of
old .doc's, readme's and drivers together
and have my boss think it's
a state of the art installation system!