SOLVED (was: [OT] windows networking issue)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:40:45AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full?
>
> There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the
> manufacturer and run a diagnostic on the card. I've mostly worked with
> older 3Coms. The utility fits on a bootable windows floppy so it
> doesn't matter which operating system your running.
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:38:08AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
> You've probably looked at this already...but...
[...]
> Last resort, try turning off Plug and Pray (Play) and setting the IRQ for
> the card manually in the bios and try again.
These two tidbits solved my problem, which was a mis-detected Ethernet
card. I got the diagnostic tool from the 3com site (the "etherdisk",
or something; it's now two floppies worth of self-extracting archive),
and noticed that one contained drivers. I removed the driver I had, rebooted
to disable plug&pray, and windows said, "You have new hardware, but I
don't know what it is." Directing it to the drivers extracted from
the disk revealed two that were compatible with the card, one PnP and
one "legacy"; I chose the second. Ping works. Putty works. IP Masq
works.
This is what I wanted. Thanks to all who replied.
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Rob
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