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- TECHNICAL BULLETIN LANAI/SMCARC
- LANtastic AI 08.05.91
- LANtastic AI and SMC PC220 and SMC PS 500WS Page 1 of 1
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- This bulletin should replace all other notes generated from this
- office to date.
-
- The following information is based on in-house testing and customer
- support of LANtastic AI. If you are not a registered LANtastic
- owner, your questions should be directed to our technical sales
- staff at (602) 293-6363. Any questions or comments on this
- bulletin may be forwarded by FAX (602) 293-8065 or mailed to :
- Artisoft Inc., 575 East River Road, Tucson, AZ., 85704, ATTN:
- LANtastic AI Support.
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- RUNNING LANTASTIC AI WITH AN SMC PC220 or PC500WS ADAPTER
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- The Standard Micro Systems (SMC) PC220 and PC500WS
- adapters are supported in LANTASTIC/AI 4.0 with the device driver:
- SMCARC.EXE. Standard Micro Systems has informed ARTISOFT that their
- compatibility testing has determined the PC550WS adapter to be
- compatible too.
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- After running the INSTALL program and selecting the SMC
- PC220 or SMC PC500WS adapter, a program called SMCARC.DOC will be
- in the LANTASTI subdirectory. PLEASE READ IT.
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- The SMC PC500FS adapter is incompatible with LANTASTIC.
- However, the PC500WS board can also be used in a LANTASTIC server.
- The PC500WS board comes in two 'flavors', and the difference is not
- reflected in the model names. The SHORT board (~5") is the one that
- uses high memory, or RAMBASE, and is the compatible one. The longer
- board (~6.2") does not use high memory, and is incompatible.
- (Please refer to the SETTINGS document)
-
- There are several other SMC boards, and many more that
- have the SMC ARCNET chipset that will not run with the SMCARC
- driver. The reason is that the SMCARC driver has a sniffer in it
- that looks for hidden registers in the most recent releases of
- SMC's ARCNET boards. This was a request from SMC in exchange for
- their providing the device driver to us. We enhanced the program,
- adding the 'hooks' to work with LANTASTIC.
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- ARTISOFT, Inc. makes no warranty as to the completeness or accuracy
- of this document. LANtastic is a registered trademark of ARTISOFT,
- Inc. Brand names and product names are trademarks or registered
- trademarks of their respective companies.