On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:24:25 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> One word of hope ... Although I could not use QEMM386 as a substitute
> for the correct version EMM386 during installation, I *can* run it once
> the initial installation was done [this is some sort of setup on the NIC
> BIOS itself, not a driver type thing]. However, since I can manage to
> get more conventional memory using DOS 5 & the 6.2 EMM386, than with
> QEMM386 no matter how hard I work to optimize it, I run under EMM386.
> You might be able to use a DOS boot diskette, much as you said, as long
> as it has the EMM386 from ver 6.2 for 3-Com NICs. Once the NIC was
> 'programmed' then hopefully you could simply go back to your DR-DOS
> setup and simply add in the appropriate driver and go from there.
Hi LD;
I also had a problem with a later version 3Com NIC driver (3C515) not
liking QEMM386. But I had NO problem with EMM386 from DOS 5.0 for the
setup phase.
So, 3com doesn't like the QEMM sig anymore but the 6.2 version of EMM386
is not required.
- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
