[NTLK] Card info utility needed

From: Mike O'Brien (obrien_at_leonardo.net)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 18:49:40 PDT


This suggestion is more for Paul Guyot than anybody else, though of
course anyone
is welcome to take a crack at it.

One of the most popular questions on this list is and has been for many
years:
"Will this XYZ brand card work with the ABC driver?" People have gone
so far
as to take pictures of the front and back sides of cards that work,
just so others
can tell if their cards will work or not. This applies to wired and
wireless Ethernet
cards, modem cards, what have you.

What we need is a utility that shows on the Newton screen the Card Info
section
of ANY card you plug into it. Type, brand, model, anything the card's
driver would
look at. That way, driver writers could say, "The such-and-so fields
of CardInfo have
to say this-that-or-the-other in order for this driver to work."
Remember, different
brands of wired Ethernet card worked, so long as the Card Info area
said it was
a 3C509.

Any takers?

Mike O'Brien

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