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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2004 21:49:14 PDT7
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Peer Network Problems...

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Gary Granat wrote:

>On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:39:51 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:
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>>If you need a new NIC card, I recommend gettting one with a RTL chipset
>>supported by the rtsnd drivers. These are probably the best supported
>>drivers for OS/2 and the card are extremely inexpensive.
>>
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>
>Remembering the proverb "Google is your friend" I did a search for "RTL
>chipset" and came up with a bunch of discussion about the D-Link DFE-530TX+
>NIC. Then, I went to the D-Link website, but was unable to verify that the
>target NIC does, in fact, use the RTL chipset. Since I (now) live in the
>hinterlands, it isn't possible to actually check these things out physically --
>life is strictly mail order here.
>
>So, can someone verify that the DFE-530TX+ does use the RTL chipset? FWIW,
>TigerDirect.com has these in stock selling for $11.99 per copy, which does seem
>to me to qualify as inexpensive. The NICPack page seems to indicate that the
>RealTek driver will work with this card. Can anyone verify this?
>
>Thanks for your assistance.
>
>--gary
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>ggranat@earthlink.net
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Gary,
I got high speed Internet access in April, 2003, thru Adelphia, my cable
TV supplier in Fullerton, CA. I went to Best Buy and got a Linksys NIC,
and it worked right away on Win2K. However, I couldn't make it work with
OS/2. I diddled around with at least two purported OS/2 drivers. No
success - no happiness.

I decided that I should see if SCOUG still existed. Even though I had
known of the organization for years, I never joined. Well, I Googled on
something like "Southern California OS/2" and there it was:
The next meeting was the next day, and if that weren't good enough, it
was at the Fullerton Public Library!
I went, I joined, and (with Steven Levine's advice) I conquered. (I even
won a drawing that day, and got some software worth more than my
membership cost!)

What Steven told me was "Get an Intel NIC." I went after the meeting to
Fry's, bought an Intel PRO/100 S PCI card, and by 5PM that Saturday, I
was up and running. The included CD has an OS2 directory, but I'm not
certain whether the drivers I'm using are from there. Still, this was a
case of money well spent, at $54.95.

You know, now that I look at that price, I'm shocked that it cost that
much. However, everything works like a charm, and that can be worth a lot.

Good luck,
Colin

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