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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:41:55 -0800
Subject: RE: PNW vs Netware (and NE2000 drivers)
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On 10 Jan 2005 at 19:15, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> Secondly, I tried to identify what network cards I had and what
> resouces they required (or could be configured to use). Initially, I
> settled on a pair of SMC 8013EPC cards, until I realized they would
> use up a 16K memory window, whereas I tend to make full use of my UMB
> space for various DOS drivers and for EMS. Next, I tried to identify a
> pair of old 8 bit Novell cards and a pair of (also old) 16 bit Novell
> cards - AFAICT, these are NE1000 and NE2000 cards, respectively (well,
> they don't have a recognizable model number, but the NE1000 and NE2000
> packet drivers are happy to load with them and report their MAC
> address correctly). Although these cards only support IRQ 2 through 5
> (I'd have preferred to use IRQ 10), they don't require a RAM window,
> so are ideal for a DOS environment. Since I expect the 16 bit cards
> will have better performance over the 8 bit cards, I settled for the
> (AFAICT) NE2000 cards.
> 
> Alas, when I tried to load the VLM ODI drivers (NE2000.COM is
> 1996/04/01 vintage), I got the error message :
> "The hardware configuration conflicts"

Silly question. Are you sure you have ther *jumpers* on the cards set 
correctly?

Those old cards *don't* software configure.


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