From: "da Silva, Joe" 

That's just as well, since I don't have any software for configuring
NE2000 clone boards, anyway.   

Actually, I was able to figure out the IRQ jumper settings by doing
a bit of circuit tracing. The the I/O address and Boot ROM jumper
settings (and the type of card) I figured out by trial-and-error with
NE*.COM packet drivers (which are very convenient for this purpose,
since they take their parameters from the command line, rather
than a configuration file).

Please see the next message for further developments.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	shadow{at}shadowgard.com [SMTP:shadow{at}shadowgard.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:42 PM
> To:	opendos{at}delorie.com
> Subject:	RE: PNW vs Netware (and NE2000 drivers)
> 
> On 10 Jan 2005 at 19:15, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> 
> > Secondly, I tried to identify what network cards I had and what
> > resouces they required (or could be configured to use). Initially, I
> > settled on a pair of SMC 8013EPC cards, until I realized they would
> > use up a 16K memory window, whereas I tend to make full use of my UMB
> > space for various DOS drivers and for EMS. Next, I tried to identify a
> > pair of old 8 bit Novell cards and a pair of (also old) 16 bit Novell
> > cards - AFAICT, these are NE1000 and NE2000 cards, respectively (well,
> > they don't have a recognizable model number, but the NE1000 and NE2000
> > packet drivers are happy to load with them and report their MAC
> > address correctly). Although these cards only support IRQ 2 through 5
> > (I'd have preferred to use IRQ 10), they don't require a RAM window,
> > so are ideal for a DOS environment. Since I expect the 16 bit cards
> > will have better performance over the 8 bit cards, I settled for the
> > (AFAICT) NE2000 cards.
> > 
> > Alas, when I tried to load the VLM ODI drivers (NE2000.COM is
> > 1996/04/01 vintage), I got the error message :
> > "The hardware configuration conflicts"
> 
> Silly question. Are you sure you have ther *jumpers* on the cards set 
> correctly?
> 
> Those old cards *don't* software configure.
> 
> 
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
> 



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