Fellow Bering-users, inspired by comments of Erik Spakman, Nathan Angelacos, and Paul Wright, I set out to reconfigure those old 3Com 3c509TP ISA-cards without any recurse to Microsoft. Successfully I may add, so now you all can revive some outdated and slower, but nonetheless funcional adapter cards for unforseen events.
I found a minimal Freedos image at http://www.geocities.com/cucnews/freedos.img.tar.gz, but probably any Freedos boot floppy will do, look at www.freedos.org or freedos.sourceforge.net, as I only needed 270kB spare space on the floppy. The next step was to visit Duisburg: ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/Hardware/3com/ /3C5x9n/3c5X9CFG.EXE ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/Hardware/3com/ /3C5x9n/3C5X9ENG.HLP Put these two files on the Freedos floppy and you have an "ncurses kinsman" serving your configuration needs. The latest Etherdisk available from 3Com seems to presuppose one Windows system or another, but in Duisburg you will find older releases too. I fetched similar tools for 3c59x and 3c90x for future use. Many other hardware vendors are represented there. Take a good look folks! This afternoon I preconfigured five 3c509 boords with this floppy disk and Bering-uClibc received them with open arms. Now it only remains to find out a way to do the reconfiguration by pure linux methods. There are rumours that this might not be easy. Regards Mats E Andersson ---- Die Kumpeln in Duisburg ha'n den Lob bestens verdient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
