I have a 3com 3ccem556 b pc card that I wish to get to my network, via DOS, on a Clevo 660 laptop computer. The laptop has a SystemSoft BIOS, so I have obtained the Cardsoft, Cardwiz, and Cardware drivers. I cannot seem to get any of them to work.
I have put the appropriate commands into the config.sys file. I also load emenable.exe, the 3ccem556b enabler. Upon loading these tools, I hear the customary corresponding beeps from the computer indicating that the card services are active. I then notice the light on the card itself comes on as does a light denoting a 10bt connection on my hub. Everything seems to handle like a dream until I try to map a UNC drive when I receive the error "Error 53": The computer name specicied in the network path cannot be located." Yes, I have type it correctly. I can get any one of my other desktop computers, with various different PCI network cards, to the particular share through dos network boot disks.
I have tried both TCP/IP and Netbeui and cannot get past this. I have used the Network Client Administrator through NT and 2000 to make the disk. I have tried the MS Netboot utility, which I use on all of my other machines to get them to the network. I have tried other boot disks that I've downloaded. I've tried Win-98 boot disks, I've tried DOS 6.22 boot disks, I've tried PC-DOS 7.0 boot disks. I wanted to leave as much information as I could. Please, do not be biased by the card or by the laptop. I have tried the same card on other laptops and received the same error after an otherwise succesful boot process. I have also tried other cards on this laptop, again the same result. I have tried other cards on other laptops, once again, the same result. I do not think it to be a problem with my hardware.
Thank you, any help offered would be appreciated.

I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for the past week to get a boot disk to work for Ghost multicasting. Your problem sounds very similar to mine in that everything seems good but you have no connectivity. The only thing that I found is that if I put my PCMCIA lan card into an older laptop (Toshiba 486 or early pentium) using the same boot disk, it works.
I wonder if you have access to such a machine (assuming the one you are using is fairly new)?

I have made two separate boot disks, one using the packet driver and one using the NDIS driver. Both work on the older laptops and neither work on the newer one although the card services bit makes all the right noises.
I think we should stay in touch and hopefully one of us will crack it!

I like the way you think, my man. I think we should do that as well.
Actually, my laptop is not all so new. It's newer than a 486, however. Another thing we may wish to do is swap disks and see if we can get them to work on each other's machines. So long as we accordingly change, domain\workgroup\share info.....
Also, do you say that you are trying with the same card I am trying?
Keep in touch, John.

Vic

I have DriveImage 4.0 and want to create an image of my Dell notebook harddrive and save it on my desktop's big harddrive. I want to do this via my two-computer ethernet lan. My Dell has a pcmcia ethernet card. DriveImage requires me to have a network boot disk for DOS. I don't know what all I need to create one. Sounds like you guys are several steps ahead of me. Can you provide me with either a disk image or the specs for making one? I'd really appreciate it.

i have never tried this with a pcmcia card before. i have a 3ccfe575bt. i read somewhere that if it is a cardbus card i could be in trouble. is this true? I am not really sure to begin so i can get the laptop to work for ghost multicast. any help woul dbe great.

I had different issues recently but I think they
might be related. I had boot disks for two
different 3COM NICs that worked fine on slower
systems but gave me divide overflow errors when
booting on newer systems. I got 3COM support to
admit that they were encountering problems with
the shipping drivers on systems with faster than
500Mhz processors. They emailed me an updated
driver and updated fmenable.exe. This fixed the
issue for me. You might check into this if your
disk works fine on a slower system but crashes on
a 500Mhz+ system.

I have had great success with this site: http://www.bovistech.com/disks.htm try the multiboot v3.0 this is a slick disk.

Steve

I have a network boot disk zipped up for the 3Com 575 at www.ebiz4cash.com/3Com575.htm It is fairly easy to modify and gives you a good place to start to build your own. I even included a bit of documentation on it.