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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Robert Steinmetz wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> >If Robert Steinmetz happens to know the name of the DOS utility I could
> >look for that and avoid this large download.
> >
> >  
> >
> I believe the correct file is 3c5x9cfg.exe or close to that. You may 
> also need some other files, I'm not sure. I always had the complete disks.

After I did the large download, David Lane sent me a file with just the
DOS stuff in it, including the above diagnostic file.  It worked fine,
told me the address and irq, and I have that 3com card working now, the
only ISA card of three that worked for me. I did not reset anything.
I don't think I actually had to specify the address and irq with that 
driver module.  (Things are getting sort of blurry by now as I did five 
realtek, three winbond, three kingston, and one 3com card, of which all 
but three worked.)
 
> I used to put it on a DOS boot floppy and run it from there. Once the 
> card is set it generally retains all of the settings.
> 
> Please be sure you get the right version of the config program there are 
> many versions of the 3c509 and they are not all completely compatible.
> 
> I remember that for a long time the 'C' version of the card was not 
> supported on one operating system I ran and I have to specifically 
> purchase the older, more expensive 'B' version.