I have actually gotten each of the cards listed in the "Tested Drivers"
section to work. The tricks to remember are:
1) Plug and Pray won't work -- so don't try.
2) PCI cards almost always work flawlessly -- as long as you have the right
driver.
3) Don't give the 3com drivers any information. Just leave the base address
blank and make the IRQ AutoIRQ. The driver will figure itself out.
Regards,
John
>
>
> I use 3C509's in my STN box. The trick with them is to use the
> 3C5X9CFG.EXE tool to setup the IRQ and I/O settings and turn OFF Plug
> and Play on the cards.
>
> If your cards are set to Plug and Play, that may be your problem.
>
> I haven't tried PCI cards, mostly because my STN box is a 486 with ISA
> slots.
>
> Terry Horton wrote:
> >
> > I've got what hopefully will be a quick question.
> >
> > I have 2 486 pc's with isa and pci. It seems I cannot get STN 2.1.1 to
> > work with any card other than an ISA NE2000. I've tried using 3coms
> > (509 isa, 509b isa , 905 pci , 905b pci) and RealTeks (8029 pci , 8139a
> > pci). It seems they will not load on boot. I've gone in and loaded the
> > module manually but could not get it to transfer.
> >
> > I'd like to get these computers to use one of the 8139a's as they are
> > cheap and I have 5 of them. Any ideas?
> >
> > Culley
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > I've had exactly the same results. If I use old ISA NE2000 cards in a
> > vanilla 486 box, STN works flawlessly. I have also tried DLink PCI 530
> > TX100 and 3COM 3509 cards with no success. Also, I have always set the
> > jumpers manually before loading STN. Has anyone got any other type of
> > card to work? In particular, any 100MB PCI card?
> >
> > Terry Horton
> >
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