Hiya Roy,

20-Oct-99 14:21:31, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Dave Davidson
          Subject: Which LAN Card....
 RJT> Dave Davidson wrote in a message to All:

 DD>> Being new to OS/2 as well as networking, I have a "simple"
 DD>> hardware  question.

 DD>> I'm building a machine for Warp 4 that I want to network with my
 DD>> WIN98  machines. I have Intel, 3Com and a couple of Generic
 DD>> Ethernet cards, both  PCI and ISA available for use.

 RJT> I can't comment in general,  but on what I use here:  I have
 RJT> several 3Com 3C509 cards in all of my machines,  and they seem to
 RJT> do the job just fine.  You'll need to boot a dos floppy and
 RJT> configure the card with their utility _first_, though,  before
 RJT> you try and install the software,  or it won't see it properly..

 Thanks for the info. As I mentioned, I'm new to both OS/2 and Networking.

 Several years ago, I setup a small network using Simply Lantastic with two
 machines. When it worked, it worked well, when it didn't, it was pure
 h*ll. It lasted about a month before I took the cards out and deleted the
 software. It was as close to "plug-n-pray" as one could get.

 One machine was running W4WG and the other DOS/DESQView. Now, I'm
 attempting to link 2 WIN98 SE machines, an OS/2 machine and my Toshiba
 Notebook (with WIN98 SE). Should be fun!

 Oh, I have another question....

 Is it possible to have two _different_ networks on a single machine, using
 the same interface card? Reason for the question.... I have access to the
 Internet at work, thru our LAN (WIN NT). I would like to utilize that with
 my notebook, without messing up my home LAN. Is that possible?

 Thanks...


 Have a GREAT one!

 Dave Davidson                        dad50@primary.net
                                      dad500@aol.com

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