Clarence,
The "installation" stopped cold, and I was told quite clearly that
EMM386 from DOS6.2 or higher *was* required. Once I had it in place,
and setver telling it that it was ok to be there, the NIC "installed"
with no problem.
l.d.
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:04:21 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> 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 ....
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