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- From: mcollins@db (Marty Collins)
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- Subject: Re: How come these NE3200s do not work?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:36:49 GMT
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- timothy@gab.unt.edu (Timothy Christian (CAS, x4175)) writes:
- : Hello,
- :
- : I just brought up an AMI EZ-FLEX 486DX/50 (not DX2) server with
- : two ne3200 cards installed. We run IPX, TCP and EtherTalk on
- : this server, but we ran into some problems, and I am hoping you
- : can help.
- :
- : For some reason, when I load ATPS, the ne3200 card decides to
- : stop receiving packets - and believes that it is still
- : broadcasting (though it isn't). This information I learned from
- : monitor.nlm and "track on." After a while, I'll get the "LAN
- : receive buffer limit reached" message which eventually makes the
- : server nose-dive. I don't think it is the ATPS that is causing
- : the problem, though. I have heard *rumors* that some EISA
- : adapters cannot handle multiple protocols, but surely the
- : strongly supported NE3200 is not in this class.
-
- Get the latest ne3200.lan driver that is version 3.18 in the ne386.zip
- file on Netwire. THere was some timing problems with the original
- version of the ne3200.lan.
-
- :
- : I have tried several different options including:
- :
- : set auto register memory above 16 megabytes = off
- : Increasing the maximum physical packet size to
- : 1530 (which fixes the no ECB avail count)
- : Increasing minimum and maximum packet receive buffers
- : Original ATPS without patches
- : Original ATPS with patches
- : New ATPS (no patches exist beyond this version, that
- : I know of)
- : NE3200s in enhanced mode
- : NE3200s in interrupts only mode
- :
- : I really feel that memory is being corrupted somehow, or I am
- : having some other problem and this is a side-effect. I installed 2
- : Western Digital Elite/16 ISA cards in the same server and haven't
- : had this problem.
- :
- : Here is the pertinent hardware information:
- :
- : AMI 486DX/50 EZ-Flex
- : Novell NetWare v3.11
- : 32 MB of RAM
- : DL2000
- : 2 NE3200 (Rev H)
- : Adaptec 1742 controller with an HP 2.4 GB disk
- : (running in enhanced mode)
- :
- : Here is the pertinent software information:
- : Novell Netware 386 v3.11, 250 users
- : atps.nlm 73724 3-27-92 13:48
- : ne3200.lan 16041 8-09-91 8:21
- :
- : Can you think of anything I am missing?
- :
- : If you have a similar configuration running (Motherboard,
- : protocols, software), I would be interested in hearing
- : that this works *some* place.
- :
- : I really appreciate any help you can provide,
-
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