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- From: st1ls@rosie.uh.edu (Nick Hakim)
- Subject: Re: WD8003E problems -- HELP!!
- Message-ID: <9SEP199202401898@rosie.uh.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug29.192104.58503@cc.usu.edu> <1992Sep2.215907.29472@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:40:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.215907.29472@samba.oit.unc.edu>, shava@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Shava Nerad Averett) writes...
- >In article <1992Aug29.192104.58503@cc.usu.edu> slqy8@cc.usu.edu (The Blizzard) writes:
- >>Hi!
- >> I really hope that someone out there can help me, and quick! I have
- >>run into a problem that I can't seem to solve, being fairly new to Novell
- >>NetWare. No matter what I try, I cannot get the packet driver for the
- >>ethernet card to load correctly on one machine in our lab. I have tried
- >>everything that I know, and have run out of options.
- >>
- >>Machine configuration:
- >>
- >>486 clone
- >>Western Digital ethernet card
- >>other stuff....
- >>(We are running TWO monitors on this system.)
- >>
- >>We are using BYU's packet driver software, version a.5c (that is what it
- >>says when I try to load the driver).
- >>The version of IPX that we are using is 3.01, Rev. A. When IPX is loaded
- >>correctly, it also tells me that my packet driver is versopm 2.01. (I got
- >>this from another machine that works properly...)
- >
- >This is to say, if I set the jumper to (if I remember correctly...)
- >(3, 280, cc000), and that was the setting for the packet driver (or .LAN
- >LOAD in AUTOEXEC.NCF), it didn't work -- but if we set the jumper to
- >SOFT, and set (3, 280, cc000) in EZSETUP, the packet driver or .LAN
- >loaded just fine.
-
- I confess that I did not take the time to read this thread throughly, but I'd
- like to offer this suggestion all the same: In case of the WD 8003E/EB/EP/
- Elite/etc... cards (including the 16-bit 8013xxx series cards, try running
- EZSETUP and turning the "Add Wait States" setting to "ON". I have found
- this to help in many bizarre instances when off-brand hardware and/or
- OpSys' are used. This is assuming that the other basics have already
- been checked, such as shared mem. contention, etc, etc.
-
- -Nick
-
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