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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:58:35 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New NIC

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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