Date: 28 Dec 1997 11:05:46 -0000
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: b52g AT usa DOT net (JP Morris)
Subject: Re: 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?

Is it a PCI device?  7.02 beta 1 and 2 have a bug in the year2000 support
that trashes the flags on int 1a, causing problems with certain PCI devices.

It should be fixed with the Full Release, which is out now.
We don't know if it is really fixed because we can't reproduce the problem.
If all else fails, try the config.sys directive YEAR2000=OFF

>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.
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