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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 09:10:08 -0400
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Andrew Jardine <ajardine AT nbnet DOT nb DOT ca>
Subject: opendos software causing NIC loopback failure?
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I'm connecting two computers under opendos and the first one I'm working on
has a new, cheap, NE2000 compatible plug and play NIC.  It passes all
diagnostics, but after I reboot and  load my network software in
autoexec.bat, if I run the diagnostic program again, it fails the loopback
test.  Should I be concerned?
I'm using the plug and play driver off of the card's installation disk
because the ne2000.exe driver originally loaded in startnet.bat wouldn't
initialize the card.  With the supplied driver, everything seems to boot up
right.