Re: NIC identification
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
> At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote:
> >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works
> >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the
> >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card
> >somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and
> >pop on the xx:xx:xx from the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of
> >the card and then you can check thier website for the model number and try
> >and figure out what driver to use
> >
> >-Casey
> well the things we learn..
>
> any ideas what the MAC might look like? where it may be?
It looks like a serie of hexadecimal numbers (xx and yy are he in the
example above). It can be found in the card's eeprom(not bootprom), but to
get there you should know the cardtype, and that is the problem (I
beliove)
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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