Does anyone know the RJ-45 NIC chipset for the Acer TravelMate C110?

I need to Ghost my hard drive to a new drive, so I have to find an
appropriate DOS NIC driver.

I saw Chris' post at
http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/acerhdupgrade.shtml but that covers
the C100.

The C110 has an Intel Pro 100/VE Network Connection listed in the
device manager. Intel's site does ml list the DOS driver or chipset
for this. It should be in the 8255x family.

The proper drivers should be on your OEM CD/DVD, Bill, or you can download
them from Acer:
http://support.acerpanam.com/synapse...d=3394#results .
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Bill" <billso******.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know the RJ-45 NIC chipset for the Acer TravelMate C110?
>
> I need to Ghost my hard drive to a new drive, so I have to find an
> appropriate DOS NIC driver.
>
> I saw Chris' post at
> http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/acerhdupgrade.shtml but that covers
> the C100.
>
> The C110 has an Intel Pro 100/VE Network Connection listed in the
> device manager. Intel's site does ml list the DOS driver or chipset
> for this. It should be in the 8255x family.

Bill wrote:
> Does anyone know the RJ-45 NIC chipset for the Acer TravelMate C110?
>
> I need to Ghost my hard drive to a new drive, so I have to find an
> appropriate DOS NIC driver.
>
> I saw Chris' post at
> http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/acerhdupgrade.shtml but that covers
> the C100.
>
> The C110 has an Intel Pro 100/VE Network Connection listed in the
> device manager. Intel's site does ml list the DOS driver or chipset
> for this. It should be in the 8255x family.

IIRC Ghost should have a bootdisk builder tool that already includes
some standard drivers like Intel Pro 100 (?) Anyway, you'll probably
find the driver from the website of Intel, or in the bootdisk(s) at
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

The other option could be to use a desktop PC and some cheapo IDE
3.5"<->2.5" adapter cable that electronic component dealers often sell
for $5 or so (cable looks like
http://www.mcsx.co.uk/shop/2-5-to-3-...dapter-kit.htm, topmost in
the picture). Create an image file of the 2.5" HD to your desktop PC HD,
swap drives, and write the image on the new 2.5" HD. Or use two adapter
cables and just copy on the fly....

cheers,
- Jan

The proper drivers are available from Acer's web site.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Jan Wagner" <no_spam@thanks.net> wrote in message
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> Bill wrote:
>> Does anyone know the RJ-45 NIC chipset for the Acer TravelMate C110? I
>> need to Ghost my hard drive to a new drive, so I have to find an
>> appropriate DOS NIC driver.
>>
>> I saw Chris' post at
>> http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/acerhdupgrade.shtml but that covers
>> the C100.
>>
>> The C110 has an Intel Pro 100/VE Network Connection listed in the
>> device manager. Intel's site does ml list the DOS driver or chipset
>> for this. It should be in the 8255x family.
>
> IIRC Ghost should have a bootdisk builder tool that already includes some
> standard drivers like Intel Pro 100 (?) Anyway, you'll probably find the
> driver from the website of Intel, or in the bootdisk(s) at
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
>
> The other option could be to use a desktop PC and some cheapo IDE
> 3.5"<->2.5" adapter cable that electronic component dealers often sell for
> $5 or so (cable looks like
> http://www.mcsx.co.uk/shop/2-5-to-3-...dapter-kit.htm, topmost in the
> picture). Create an image file of the 2.5" HD to your desktop PC HD, swap
> drives, and write the image on the new 2.5" HD. Or use two adapter cables
> and just copy on the fly....
>
> cheers,
> - Jan

Chris H. wrote:
> The proper drivers are available from Acer's web site.

Yes, but the download pages say the drivers are for XP, and not for DOS.
Ghost PE, if you clone over the network, runs from in DOS (or was it
DRDOS, or PRODOS?) started from a boot floppy.

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...driver/lan.zip
has a .SYS ndis driver file, but i wouldn't expect it to work in DOS,
only 2k/XP, because the driver pack _is_ for XP...

Whereas, from Intel's support page at
http://support.intel.com/support/net...6103-prd38.htm
you can get the DOS drivers from the list, where it says "MS-DOS*
Client, Use for Ghost* or Imaging Software."

cheers,
- Jan

Windows XP doesn't have "DOS". Bill Gates exited from the C: prompt at the
XP launch.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Jan Wagner" <no_spam@thanks.net> wrote in message
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> Chris H. wrote:
>> The proper drivers are available from Acer's web site.
>
> Yes, but the download pages say the drivers are for XP, and not for DOS.
> Ghost PE, if you clone over the network, runs from in DOS (or was it
> DRDOS, or PRODOS?) started from a boot floppy.
>
> ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...driver/lan.zip
> has a .SYS ndis driver file, but i wouldn't expect it to work in DOS, only
> 2k/XP, because the driver pack _is_ for XP...
>
> Whereas, from Intel's support page at
> http://support.intel.com/support/net...6103-prd38.htm
> you can get the DOS drivers from the list, where it says "MS-DOS* Client,
> Use for Ghost* or Imaging Software."
>
> cheers,
> - Jan

Chris H. wrote:
> Windows XP doesn't have "DOS". Bill Gates exited from the C: prompt at the
> XP launch.

You are of course absolutely correct Chris, but I understood it that way
that the OP Bill has some earlier Norton/Symantec Ghost version that
runs in DOS only (that's real DOS, not cmd.exe), and that doesn't use
WinPE like the newer one does, for over-the-network cloning. So the
Ghost Bootdisk Builder is asking Bill for the NIC's DOS NDIS network
drivers, in order to include them on the boot diskette. Otherwise I'd
find it hard to figure why Bill would be asking specifically for the DOS
drivers... ;-)

I hope this clears up some confusion! :-)

cheers,
- Jan

And if the Tablet is formatted as NTFS? 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Jan Wagner" <no_spam@thanks.net> wrote in message
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> Chris H. wrote:
>> Windows XP doesn't have "DOS". Bill Gates exited from the C: prompt at
>> the XP launch.
>
> You are of course absolutely correct Chris, but I understood it that way
> that the OP Bill has some earlier Norton/Symantec Ghost version that runs
> in DOS only (that's real DOS, not cmd.exe), and that doesn't use WinPE
> like the newer one does, for over-the-network cloning. So the Ghost
> Bootdisk Builder is asking Bill for the NIC's DOS NDIS network drivers, in
> order to include them on the boot diskette. Otherwise I'd find it hard to
> figure why Bill would be asking specifically for the DOS drivers... ;-)
>
> I hope this clears up some confusion! :-)
>
> cheers,
> - Jan

Chris H. wrote:
> And if the Tablet is formatted as NTFS? 8-)

Should be absolutely no problem, as filesystem handling is done
internally in Ghost...

For now I've "only" used it to pull corporate sysprep'ped Win2k & XP
images from a server, and also copy ext3 linux. Quite nifty tool, if you
ask me! :) (not that I'm in any way affiliated with Symantec/Norton...)

AFAIK it should support FAT8..FAT64, NTFS, ext2, ext3, HPFS, and maybe
others. Natively. Sort of like PartitionMagic. Or that useful Linux
rescue floppy that allows replacing e.g. the 2k/XP/2k-server
administrator password if you have physical access
(http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ 8-)

Anyway... A popular users guide for Ghost is at http://ghost.radified.com/

Though if you haven't had the chance to, errm, experience Ghost before,
you can probably count yourself lucky! ;-))

cheers,
- Jan