and i can’t find them… i’m sure there are only a limited number of people that will even understand my request… and i’m sure the number of people that will be able to help is slim to none.
BUT-
i’m looking for win xp / 2k drivers for a Fore Systems ForeRunner LE 155mb card… i’m just looking to run my internal network san at a good throughput… but also my main computer… it’ll just be basic IP over ATM with PVC, no svc or signalling or anything.
ForeSystems was bought out by Marconi, who are nazi’s with support of old Foresystems stuff… so i’m fucked.
i have a couple bay network switches with fiber cards and would really like to run fiber to my most heavily used pc…
ANYONE that can help me will recieve something in return… i’ll give ya a fucking bay networks hub or something…
thanks
ps - this is for my home use… if it were for work i wouldn’t be using 8 year old cards :tounge:
PSS - i have the linux drivers… so i’ll just throw it on my redhat server if i have to… but i’d like to run fiber using my veritas 9 backups…
“DRIVERS WANTED” i crack myself up. wow that is so jibberish to me. is this stuff that can be found on ebay?? cause i only think that there are two people that deal with comp. that deep on here and one of them are you.
FR LE 155 ATM PCI RJ45 NETWORK INTERFACE CARD ADAPTER CD/DOC/DRIVERS
Manufacturer: MARCONI COMMUNICATIONS
Part Number: 1050101100
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The ESX-3000 LAN switch is designed specifically to meet the edge demands of large enterprise networks. It delivers industry-leading flexibility, scalability and performance to the wiring closet and the riser at an affordable price. The ESX-3000 offers high density wiring closet and riser connections plus multiple high speed uplinks. With support for either 192 ports of 10/100 Mbps desktop Ethernet, 128 ports of 155 Mbps ATM or 32 ports of 622 Mbps ATM, the ESX-3000 offers the highest Ethernet and ATM density of any LAN edge switch. Plus, the ESX-3000 is the only LAN edge switch that is 2.5 Gbps OC-48c-ready.
Dimensions
Height ForeRunner LE PCI 155 ATM RJ-45
Width ForeRunner LE PCI 155 ATM RJ-45
Depth ForeRunner LE PCI 155 ATM RJ-45
Weight ForeRunner LE PCI 155 ATM RJ-45
Other Spec Info
Manufacturer Part No. 105-0101-100
Included Accessories Drivers/Documentation CD
Transfer Modes Bus Master DMA
Network Type ATM
Misc Features ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) Support
Standards UNI 3.0
Drivers/NOS Support Windows 95
Drivers/NOS Support Windows 98
Configuration Plug and Play (PnP)
Compliances/Certifications CISPR 22 Class B
Misc Features Manageable
Compliances/Certifications FCC Part 15 Class B
LAN Connectors / Channels ATM-RJ45
Standards UNI 3.1
Configuration S/W Configurable
Misc Features QoS
Compliances/Certifications EN 60950 (T_V)
Transfer Modes Burst Mode DMA
Cable Types Cat 5 UTP
Standards Lan Emulation 1.0
Configuration Auto Configurable
Drivers/NOS Support Mac OS
Standards PCI 2.1
Bus/Interface Type 32-bit PCI
Compliances/Certifications ATM CBR
Buffer Memory 128 KB
Quantity Single Pack
Drivers/NOS Support Windows NT 4.0
DMA Settings PCI Controlled
Power Characteristics PC Powered
Form Factor 1/2 Card
Compliances/Certifications ITU I.363
Manufacturer Marconi
Compliances/Certifications UL 1950
Type Device Network Adapter
Drivers/NOS Support See Website for Supported Versions
Power Details .2 amps max @ +5V; 1.5amps @ +12V; 1.5amps @ - 12
Compliances/Certifications EN 55022
Drivers/NOS Support OS/2 Warp 3.0
Interrupts (IRQ) PCI Controlled
Compliances/Certifications ANSI T1S1 5/92-002R3
Drivers/NOS Support NetWare Client
Standards PCI 2.0
Compliances/Certifications EN 50082-1
Native Transmit Speed(s) 155 Mbps
Drivers/NOS Support Windows 2000
Compliances/Certifications ATM UBR
Reference Info
SKU 1050101100
URL Manufacturer Link
Spec Detailed Info
Product Family ForeRunner
Product Line Series Model LE
Connectors ATM - RJ-45 Modular-style
Case Pack Quantity 1
Manufacturer Sku 105-0101-100
Network Architecture ATM
Slot Type PCI
Vendor FSY
Support Info
Technical Support Phone Number 724-742-6999
Technical Support URL Support Link
Warranty Info
Base Warranty 1 Year (12 Months)
I’m not real familiar with the peice of hardware you need the drivers for but if it’s going on 8 years old, been through a company buy out, and was created before Win XP was even though of you may be up shit crick other than usin the Linux drivers you have. My best attempt to help is this: One of my professor’s at school knows one of the lead support guys from Marconi. He even had him do a few presentations for us over a couple semesters. I will e-mail my professor and see if he can get you any information right from Marconi.
thanks a bunch dude… i’m actually running that card on my suse firewall… but i want to run it on my xp desktop… it’s a forerunnerLE old school 155 mbs card…
see what the marconi guy says… probably simply that marconi doesn’t give a fuck about forerunner… which i can’t really blame them.
it’s just old crap i have laying around that i could use… i have a bunch of fiber, i have numerous bay network switches with fiber cards… i just need a PCI card… and don’t really want to buy one if i already have one…
Actually we have drivers for the card, but I would suggest finding an HE card instead of the LE. The LE isn’t really performance oriented. It’s a value based card when ATM to the desktop was trying to go mainstream.
I’m not really sure why you would want ATM, OC3 isn’t that fast, OC12 isn’t bad but you could just do two gigE cards with a crossover cable and be done. It’d be cheaper as well.
Originally posted by s10blazed I’m not real familiar with the peice of hardware you need the drivers for but if it’s going on 8 years old, been through a company buy out, and was created before Win XP was even though of you may be up shit crick other than usin the Linux drivers you have. My best attempt to help is this: One of my professor’s at school knows one of the lead support guys from Marconi. He even had him do a few presentations for us over a couple semesters. I will e-mail my professor and see if he can get you any information right from Marconi.
Originally posted by silvrhand It’d be cheaper as well.s
no i actually don’t know anything about marconi… only crap from the forerunner days…
you never mentioned that you work for marconi… otherwise i would of just asked you…
the cheaper part makes perfect sense… however, to this point i haven’t spent a dime… this is for my home network san… i was just trying to play around in my spare time and couldn’t find windows based drivers… eventually i found NT drivers but, naturally they won’t work with xp…
i did some tweaking and got the card operational… but it’s much nicer just to plug and pray with my suse firewall…
but i don’t really need fiber at home i just have fiber switch, fiber wire, and a fiber card and figured might as well see if i can get them to work…
Originally posted by silvrhand Shows what you know…
Actually we have drivers for the card
umm… not to start drama… but i’m pretty sure you don’t have drivers for XP for the LE card???
i see the HE card… and i agree the le was value based when they were trying to promote ATM…
also, the two gige cards would work much better… and at work when i’m not the one paying the bills, i buy whatever i think is best… when i’m paying the bills i take whatever is free…
like i said, from my previous job i had an LE card sitting around and tried to get it working… all i could find is 95 / nt drivers…
Glory days of telecommunications we were into everything:
Core
Enterprise
ATM to the desktop
Fiber to the home
etc, etc.
After the big dump in the telecom market, we are into one thing…
Core products.
Most of our enterprise stuff is now legacy, the only really thing we promote NIC wise is the ForeRunner HE series cards which are designed to do full duplex line rate speeds.
gigE cards cost about $30 each from newegg, will be better supported, and be faster than the LE card by 3/4 times.
drop me an email and I’ll send you something.
Originally posted by turbovw18 no i actually don’t know anything about marconi… only crap from the forerunner days…
you never mentioned that you work for marconi… otherwise i would of just asked you…
the cheaper part makes perfect sense… however, to this point i haven’t spent a dime… this is for my home network san… i was just trying to play around in my spare time and couldn’t find windows based drivers… eventually i found NT drivers but, naturally they won’t work with xp…
i did some tweaking and got the card operational… but it’s much nicer just to plug and pray with my suse firewall…
but i don’t really need fiber at home i just have fiber switch, fiber wire, and a fiber card and figured might as well see if i can get them to work…
