old Olicom 4/16Mbit ISA NIC

[Lancelot]

It won't link up with my cable modem. I've tried a normal and crossed UTP cable. The NIC is correctly installed, recognized by Win2k itself, using certified WDM drivers and fully functional. It says the connection speed is 16Mbit. Could the problem just be that my COM21 cablemodem can only communicate at 10Mbit?

[klosters64a]

Edit. Sorry, my post was too lame.

[pii100]

what do you mean 4/16 bit? is it an ethernet card?

[Lancelot]

Yes it's an ethernet card I guess (...) It has one connector that looks like a 9-pin serial port, and one UTP connector. I took it out an old Compaq 486DX2-66 I have. The goal is to free the PCI-slot my current NIC is in, but I fear this 16Mbit is some obsolete (office-networking?) standard so I'm gonna find me a new 10Mbit ISA NIC.

[Lancelot]

Got a 3Com 10Mbit ISA NIC today; problem solved! Now I can take out my PCI NIC to get rid of the IRQ conflict it had with my onboard ATA66 controller.

[pii100]

if it had a db9 connector it might have been an token ring card who knows