Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Man, I just had fun(tm) getting this new box I bought from Mark > Breitung working. :^) It's got a rather old network card, which > happens to have three connectors on it (10BaseT, the RJ45 style we're > all used to these days, as well as BNC and something that looks kinda > like a joystick or MIDI port.. AUI, I think it's called?) It's a 3COM > Etherlink III '3c509(b)' card. > > It seemed the EEPROM was set to make the thing always try and use the > BNC connector, so I was never able to get onto my network.
I used to really love those old cards, and still have a big pile of them. They're still quite useful, especially on cards that will be mostly talking to the Internet. (E.g., your mail server has a 1.54 Mbps T-1 line to itself? Cool. But why does it need a NIC faster than 10 Mbps?) So, I maintain a bunch of the administrative tools for both Linux (C and ELF) and MS-DOS. The DOS ones I extracted from the relevant 3Com Etherdisk image. http://linuxmafia.com/pub/hardware/ The DOS one will verify that your settings of IRQ and IO base address don't conflict with anything else. Handy. Usually, IRQ 10 and I/O base address 300h are ideal, though. Among other things, autoprobing software seems most likely to look for them there. -- Cheers, We write precisely We say exactly Rick Moen Since such is our habit in How to do a thing or how [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking to machines; Every detail works. Excerpt from Prof. Touretzky's decss-haiku.txt @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech