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to: PETER KNAPPER
from: SCOTT BROWN
date: 1998-04-04 10:20:00
subject: Sharing a WFWG printer...

 PK>      On the OS/2 machine, if the card did NOT come with an OS/2
 PK>      specific CARD driver, then you will need to locate one for 
 PK>      YOUR card. In the case of the NE2000 card, locate the file
 PK>      NS2000.ZIP and use that. Warning: thereis a file called 
 PK>      NE2000WC.ZIP that contains a driver for NE2000 cards, but like
 PK>      the OS/2 suplied NE2000 driver it is card specific. NS2000.ZIP 
 PK>      contains a generic NE2000 clone driver and seems to work with 
 PK>      most NE2000 cards. The standard NE2000 driver included with 
 PK>      Warp only works with one specific BRAND of NE2000 card (there 
 PK>      are several different NE2000 card manufacturers, and some have 
 PK>      added improvements to the original design that requires a 
 PK>      specific driver to get them working. These modified drivers 
 PK>      will NOT work with the original NE2000 card.)
In my experience, there is a generic NE2000 driver on the warp install disks. 
Using some cheapie clone cards made by GVC, I did manage to find a driver in 
the list of available cards... it just took a little bit of trial and error 
with the 3 or 4 different NE2000 drivers that MPTS came with.
I'm no longer sure what the name of the driver was that I chose (and since 
things are working, I'm not about to go back and do anything in MPTS again 
:-) but the driver that config.sys loads is simply called NE2000.OS2 (which 
I'm sure, 90% of the NE2000 cards out there call theirs as well...)
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