12 Sep
2025
12 Sep
'25
2:23 p.m.
The driver package (B25-PDL_CTOS_Ethernet_Packet_Driver_3.7.0) also has drivers for ACCTON
1660 and 3COM 3C509 - you need to uncomment them in JCL file. I have the Accton card
installed and detected in dos (and confirmed IRQ and base address) on SG3000 platform but
activating the driver always crashes CTOS to core dump. The only suspect bit “Shared
memory” which appears to be boot room address and this is not installed on my card (socket
missing). Wonder if anyone had success with the driver?
12 Sep
12 Sep
11:57 p.m.
New subject: CTOS Ethernet EDL software
On Sep 12, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Alexei Iliasov via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The driver package (B25-PDL_CTOS_Ethernet_Packet_Driver_3.7.0) also has drivers for
ACCTON 1660 and 3COM 3C509 - you need to uncomment them in JCL file. I have the Accton
card installed and detected in dos (and confirmed IRQ and base address) on SG3000 platform
but activating the driver always crashes CTOS to core dump. The only suspect bit “Shared
memory” which appears to be boot room address and this is not installed on my card (socket
missing). Wonder if anyone had success with the driver?
I’ve only used it with the SMC 8416T.
But:
“Shared memory” is not the boot ROM, it’s the address of where the card maps its onboard
RAM (usually/always somewhere in the UMA). I would expect the driver to crash if it were
told to use some address other than where the board mapped itself. I doubt CTOS makes any
use of the ROM even if it were present.
ok
bear.
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