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- From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
- Subject: Re: HELP: IBM token ring on Gateway 2000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.012221.26975@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:22:21 GMT
- References: <cef09me00Voz0HiktO@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Illinois State University
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- In article <cef09me00Voz0HiktO@andrew.cmu.edu> se08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Adam Eliot) writes:
- >I recently purchased a Gateway 2000 486 DX2 50 MHz machine.
- >
- >Now I'd like to install my old 'IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II'
- >card in it, but I can't seem to find any settings that work.
- >
- >The card has the following adjustable settings:
- >
- > set by default
- >Location of card's ROM in memory DIP CC000
- >Interrupt Level DIP 2
- >Size of Shared RAM DIP 16 K
- >Shared RAM location soft D8000 (I think)
- >
- >So I believe that IRQ 7 is OK (it's LPT1, and I've disconnected my
- >printer from it). But everything else is a mystery. I just can't get
- >the card to initialize.
-
- On page 10-13 of the User's guide, there is a diagram of how to configure
- JP3 to disable the LPT port. The first two jumpers should be moved from
- the right to the left. But you should RTFM to make sure you have it
- right.
-
- >P.S. does Gateway have an internet address for this kind of stuff?
-
- Try gateway@aol.com and include in your message whom you are addressing
- (e.g., tech support, customer service, etc.).
-
- Cheers,
- -E.
-
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