Hello Mats,
Die Kumpels aus Duisburg ham 'n Lob wirklich verdient. :-)
I also have an old disk for reconfiguring my 3c509-nics, based on Novell-DOS
and a program I downloaded from the 3com website.
There is also a debian-packages called nictools-nopci:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show nictools-nopci
Package: nictools-nopci
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 248
Maintainer: Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.3.2-7
Replaces: 3c5x9utils, wdsetup
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Suggests: nictools-pci
Conflicts: 3c5x9utils, wdsetup
Filename: pool/main/n/nictools-nopci/nictools-nopci_1.3.2-7_i386.deb
Size: 62738
MD5sum: b1893f94207b2c87a3eb39d489f72705
Description: Diagnostic tools for many non-PCI ethernet cards
These are tools to diagnostic problems with your non-PCI ethernet cards.
Some card can be set up or the EEPROM can be updated.
.
3c515-diag : Diagnostic program for 3Com 3c515 Ethernet cards
3c5x9setup : Setup program for 3Com EtherLink III Ethernet cards
at1700-diag : Diagnostic program for the Allied Telesis AT1700
atlantic-setup: Setup program for AT/LANTIC DP83905 Ethernet cards
atp-diag : Diagnostic for Realtek RTL8002/RTL8012 pocket Ethernet
adapter
eexpress : Diagnostic program for Intel EtherExpress 16 cards
el3diag : Diagnostic program for 3c509 and 3c579 Ethernet cards
e21-diag : Diagnostic program for Cabletron E2100 Ethernet cards
hp+-diag : Diagnostic program for HP PC LAN+ (27247B & 27252A) cards
hp100vg-diag : Diagnostic program for Lucent ATT2MD01 Ethernet cards
ne2k-diag : Diagnostics and EEPROM setup for NE2000 clones
wdsetup : Configuration utility for Western Digital and SMC Ethernet
cards
3c5x9setup is usable and works, but it will not run on a LEAF-box
And the original 3com tool 3c5x9cfg.exe is much prettier.
Regards Thomas
* Mats Erik Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061125 20:10]:
>
> 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 can revive some outdated and slower, but nonetheless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.
>
>
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