On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:40:45AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full? > > There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the > manufacturer and run a diagnostic on the card. I've mostly worked with > older 3Coms. The utility fits on a bootable windows floppy so it > doesn't matter which operating system your running.
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:38:08AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > You've probably looked at this already...but... [...] > Last resort, try turning off Plug and Pray (Play) and setting the IRQ for > the card manually in the bios and try again. These two tidbits solved my problem, which was a mis-detected Ethernet card. I got the diagnostic tool from the 3com site (the "etherdisk", or something; it's now two floppies worth of self-extracting archive), and noticed that one contained drivers. I removed the driver I had, rebooted to disable plug&pray, and windows said, "You have new hardware, but I don't know what it is." Directing it to the drivers extracted from the disk revealed two that were compatible with the card, one PnP and one "legacy"; I chose the second. Ping works. Putty works. IP Masq works. This is what I wanted. Thanks to all who replied. This is a distressingly appropriate randomly generated signature. Rob -- If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
