Do you know what type of card it is (vendor and model)? It must be rather old...I have a few "Combo Cards" (UTP + Coax) and have never seen on ethat NEEDED you to select for it what interface it used. Generally yes, you wil need to boot DOS with a config disk... I have about 3 or 4 diff config disks tho...if you can tell me th evendor who knows...might get lucky (id be happy to send you a copy of one of the disks) as for 3comms ... they work ok...personally I find a cheap NE2000 clone works just as good I have had allot of luck with SVEC cards (weird..bought some a few months maybe a year back and they were "jumperless" "PNP" (but also NE2000 so they worked fine) and I bought some about 1 month ago and they were Jumper config! (I LOVE jumpers...so I can set it once and know that it wont "loose its config"...) I must say I also like ATI (Allied Telliesen ) I bought one of their cards through someone else, it worked for a year, then I accidently (my fault I think) blew it out...one call to them and 2 days later I had a new one! -Steve
Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > Hi All. > > I have a NE2000 card on my 486DX4 100MHz server, running a hamm > Debian (upgraded whenever possible - something like twice a week... ;) > And, recently, I encountered a problem: the cable that links the NE card > to the HUB (3comm) has been changed from coaxial to UTP and so, our > network conection has gone away... :( I have tried by all means to recover > it, but with no success (I also do not have the manual of the card...). > > Well, by now, what I know is that this little NE2000 can be > reconfigured to use UTP with the aid of a Config Disk, booting DOS, and > that its new UTP configuration will be kept on a kind of EPROM (or > something like this...). Is this correct ? Do I have to find such a > config-disk and boot into DOS-mode to reconfigure this card ? And what > about upgrading to a 3COM 509 ? Is it a good idea ? (although I know that > 3Com cards are better than this NE2000 I am not sure if I can afford such > a change right now, so I am asking just for the sake of prevention and > possible future upgrades... ;) > > Thanks in advance, > > Daniel. > ______________________________________________________________________ > Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > System & Network Administrator http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf > > CECM - Curso de Ciencias Moleculares - USP > Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key at: http://www.gis.net/~sjc/pgp.asc (BTW Thanx allot Noah for pointing out why putting my pgp key here was a bad idea...now I hafta find a new funny quote or something for here) "Ummm, me make *one* change. Stone hot so me soak in stream so stone not burn Lorto hand. Small change, shoul dnot keep Lorto from make Fire." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]