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

[Larry Lindblom]

In an HP 9795C the Lava Quatro Pro 4 was the last card installed and no
problem.  Maybe order of installing the cards is a chipset or BIOS issue?

W0ETC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Nowak" <bnowak@telocity.com>
To: "Damon S. Raphael, MD (W7MD)" <w7md@azstarnet.com>; "WA9ALS - John"
<wa9als@starband.net>
Cc: "Mike Rhodes" <weightdn@bright.net>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 18:06
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Byterunner USB-4COM-110V Experience ??


> FWIW, I found that when I installed a LAVA Quatrtro Pro (4 port PCI) in my
> computer, I needed to remove all other cards (sound, video and network)
then
> install LAVA card first then the rest all one at-a-time.
>
> Worked fine.
> Brad - N8SNM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damon S. Raphael, MD (W7MD)" <w7md@azstarnet.com>
> To: "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@starband.net>
> Cc: "Mike Rhodes" <weightdn@bright.net>; <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 22:12
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Byterunner USB-4COM-110V Experience ??
>
>
> 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!
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