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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:39:47 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New NIC

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Steven,

>Crossover cable or something else?

Yes, I built it as a crossover cable.

> I recommend verifying this with a couple of large Peer file transfers.

Good idea! I'll try that.

> 6-29-01 17:31 52,559 0 EL90X.OS2
> 4-29-04 11:19 1,504 0 EL90XIO2.NIF

I have the same EL90X.OS2 file. However, my other file is:

EL90XIO2.NIF 1505 11/16/2001 5:01:00 pm

> See EL90XIO2.NIF for the available parameters

Oh, I did not know that you could read that file in a text editor. It has the
MAXTRANSMITS, NETADDRESS, SLOT and BUSNO parameters.

>What happens if you connect the 3COM to a 100MB switch on boot up?

I don't understand your statement, here. How do I connect the 3COM to a 100MB switch?
Do you mean, go out an get a 100MB Ethernet switch?
HCM

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:58:35 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>In <20050809063800-58725-11@scoug.com>, on 08/09/05
> at 06:38 AM, "Harry Motin" said:
>
>>The network card is the second one of 2 attached to my computer. It goes
>>to another computer via an already existing Ethernet cable.
>
>Crossover cable or something else?
>
>>I
>>suspect, however, that my connection is now slowed down to 10 Mbs
>>(instead of 100 Mbs), because of the 10Base message during bootup.
>
>This may be true. I recommend verifying this with a couple of large Peer
>file transfers.
>
>>DRIVERS FOR 3COM 3C905C-TXM:
>> EL90X.OS2
>> EL90XIO2.NIF
>
>These are what I use:
>
> 6-29-01 17:31 52,559 0 EL90X.OS2
> 4-29-04 11:19 1,504 0 EL90XIO2.NIF
>
>>[EL90XIO2_nif]
>
>> DriverName = EL90X$
>> MaxTransmits = 40
>
>This is all standard.
>
>>The first network card, the Intel Pro, takes the SPEED = 0 parameter in
>>the PROTOCOL.INI file.
>
>Correct. Different card, different driver.
>
>>When I tried to use a "SPEED" parameter on the
>>3COM card, it rejected it and my system did not load the drivers for
>>that card.
>
>No unexpected. See EL90XIO2.NIF for the available parameters. There are
>a couple of undocumented settings, but you can control them with MPTS and
>none of them control the cable speed.
>
>What happens if you connect the 3COM to a 100MB switch on boot up? Does
>that change the boot up message?
>
>Regards,
>
>Steven
>
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