[Info-vax] OpenVMS V8.3 ES40 NIC compatibility question

[Steven Schweda]

On Jul 30, 10:46 am, Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenst... at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As a related question: does your XP1000 recognize the
> card at the SRM firmware level?

   Nah.  It's clueless.  If you need a network interface
before VMS is up, then you're probably stuck with one of the
recognized 10/100 (EI, EW) interfaces.

>  I have an XP1000 which
> sees, but doesn't recognize the card. The card is recognized
> as a DEGXA in a DS10, though. My guess would be that the
> XP1000 has an older firmware which doesn't know about
> Gigabit cards, but I'm not sure.

That was my interpretation, too.  My console ("show
config") says:

      Slot
       12    16C714E4/601B0E11

Wake me when you find that XP1000 firmware update which solves
all the known problems.  (I'll just hold my breath.)

> BTW: thank you for those floppy images. They are indeed
> very helpful.

   I live to serve.