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Skriven 2005-02-09 20:21:22 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
Ärende: Installing Intel 8256EZ NIC?
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OK, I've got a brand new Intel 915GAV motherboard running here with an Intel
Celeron 2.53Ghz CPU.  It has an Intel 82562EZ NIC on the motherboard.  And ..
though that's not listed yet on the OS/2 hardware compatible site, I looked at
the Intel Web site..

   Surprise!  As of 01-15-2005, the 82562 family *IS* listed as
   supported for OS/2 officially.  Intel furnishes driver support
   for their chips and have consistently done so for OS/2.

   Neat!  And the DOS and OS/2 driver download for this chip comes
   now as a function of the release of PRODOS.EXE which you can sure
   download from the Intel site real quick.

Hah!  That file is a WINDOWS executable.  I've got older WIN support installed
for the early version on the box here.  It opens up a full screen just like
WIN-NT under OS/2 and promptly tells me to get a more modern WINdowns .. sigh. 
Here we go in the zoo, sigh.

Well, I do have a WIN-XP box here for test purposes separate and apart for all
of this.  What do I do now?  Some of this packed executable stuff can be
actually unscrambled by PKUNZIP for DOS or UNZIP for OS/2, even though it is a
WIN exe file.  It's just a self-extracting executable and the utilities can
just unscramble it anyway.  But in this case, that doesn't work.

So now, has anyone ever fooled with the Intel self-unpacking executables this
way and know what will happen if I run it under WIN-XP?  I sure don't want to
start an OS/2 installation under WIN-XP!  Does it just unpack it all like ZIP
or whatever into a directory in which you are unscrambling it?  And from there
you copy it to a floppy and cross load it into your beloved OS/2 box and go
about the standard inportation of new network adapter drivers into the standard
OS/2 LAN game?

Anyone know here?

Thanks!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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