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Re: Give me your advice about the best NIC for my A2000
« on: December 27, 2010, 06:30:51 PM »
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Hi my friends.

I am in the process in rebuilding my mighty A2000 for good. It will be eating electricity again in a few days now and will be full of rare and expensive boards (pictures to come) :D

I need advice about the best choice for a network card.
I have here:
- an HydraNet rev 1.1 zorro board
- an untested ARIADNE 1 which also comes with a parallel port
- a Deneb board that could be hooked to an USB-RJ45 adapter but obviously in Zorro 2 mode only (it would at least free a zorro slot for a VLab board)

Which solution would perform the faster and the better (i am thinking of a multiboot system with 3.1 and 2.04)?

Thanks for your help on that matter.


I had the Hydra back in the day. You'll need a AUI-> BNC adapter or I used a hub that had both RJ45 and one COAX.

I don't find an extra parallel port to be that useful. "untested", what if the parallel port is the only portion of that card that works?

I would go for the Deneb because its useful for other purposes as well. With  usbparallel.device, you could have dozens of USB parallel ports and a USB rocket launcher.

I don't think the Poseidon stack will work with 2.04. Maybe I'm wrong.