[WriteLog] Byterunner USB-4COM-110V Experience ??

[Damon S. Raphael, MD (W7MD)]

Check Vision Systems (VScom) at http://www.visionsystems.de  They make
the Byterunner PCi 8 port cards.

This a very well supported card.  There may problems with IRQ sharing on
the PCI bus with Windows operating systems.  Some of this may be driver
related and some may have to do with the motherboard BIOS.  You might
have to exchange cards in the PCI bus slots for the Plug and Play
function to get it almost right and then set the address space in the
Hardware Setup area under Control Panel.  I found this to work much
better in Win98 than Win95.

In Linux, Vision Systems provides a a configuration utility called
"vscardcfg".  When Redhat Linux 7.1 boots up, it immediately recognizes
the firmware info on the card and writes it into it's hardware
configuration file.  You then execute "vscardcfg" and it sets up and
initializes all the ports. Pretty slick.

Damon,  W7MD
Tucson

WA9ALS - John wrote:
> 
> I had a very bad experience with a Byterunner PCI card in a Gateway P5-166
> computer.  It was their 8-port PCI card.  It would not install properly.  I
> talked with their tech service on the phone.  After only about 10 minutes of
> trying a couple of different drivers that he emailed me, he gave up and said
> to send it back for a full refund.  He said there were "known issues" with
> the card and that "we have a team in Taiwan working on it".  I did get the
> refund, and they were easy to work with.  That was probably 2 yrs ago at
> this point.  It's extremely possible that their PCI card would work fine for
> you.
> 
> (Maybe the team has it fixed now.) TAYOR - Try At Your Own Risk!