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Install NIC card in DOS machine
Name: steve Date: March 26, 2001 at 16:43:39 Pacific
Comment:
Does anyone know how to install a 3Com 3C509b-TPO card in a DOS 6.22 machine...
I have an old DOS machine that connects to a Novell 4.11 server...which then runs an old DOS accounting program...
I have lost the connection from my DOS workstation to the Novell server...and I think the old Nic card in the DOS machine shot craps...
The DOS machine also has Win3.1 installed, but it boots to DOS...
Any help appreciated...email me if you wish.. Solve this and I buy the beer! Steve
Name: Lispeb Date: March 27, 2001 at 07:30:52 Pacific
Reply:
DOS has trouble with high IRQ and IO port numbers, and may not be able to support the card. But if it can support the card, the drivers that come with Windows 3.1 will work in DOS as well.
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Response Number 2
Name: jivesh Date: March 31, 2001 at 16:17:19 Pacific
Reply:
Connecting to a Novell Server using DOS then you must be using a net.cfg file. Just replace the nic card driver name in the link driver line to the one provided by 3Com for the card. You must also place the driver in the C:\nwclient folder on the DOS Box.
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