TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: novell
to: SCOTT PARKS
from: GLENN MEHESY
date: 1998-01-23 21:16:00
subject: 3com PCI garbage info in LAN INFO

Scott Parks wrote in a message to all:
 SP> When I first setup our new server (HP LD Pro) I found the
 SP> setup CD did not support NW3.11 so I was unable to setup
 SP> partitions or install the network card (Intel PCI) with it. 
 SP> Since I had a 3com PCI and the drivers and knew all the load
 SP> commands I swapped the cards.  It wasn't until a week or so
 SP> later that I looked at the LAN INFO in Monitor and when I
 SP> look at the card's protocol info it displays garbage and
 SP> will crash the server.  Since everything works if I don't
 SP> probe the card info with Monitor I wonder if this is really
 SP> a problem ... or possibly a problem with NW3.11 and PCI
 SP> cards?
   On the 3COM driver disk there should be a replacemnet for the original 
Monitor that came with 3.11. I have a Compaq Prosignia where I work and we 
just finished changing the network from Token Ring to Ethernet and replaced 
the TR card with a 3COM 3C589 EISA ethernet card. On the floppy I found in 
the 3.11 directory for Novell servers an updated Monitor. I did not replace 
it at first until, like you, I tried to probe the server for LAN stats with 
the original Monitor and the server came to a screaching halt. Thankfully I 
was working a night after all other personal went home :)
Glenn
    FidoNet 1:107/677.0   ibmNET 40:4371/677.0   OS2net 81:135/14.0
--- timEd/2 1.01
---------------
* Origin: The Nut House OS/2 Hayes 28.8 V34 (908)324-2617 (1:107/677)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.