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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:18:55 PDT
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: D-Link Challenges Tekram To Steel Cage DSL Match

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> > "DLKRTS.NIF"
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> A fixed version is attached.

Worked perfect. Thanks _very_ much.
_____

I spent the evening testing everything and every possible combination.
Here's a summary:

-- The UMC network cards (I have several) don't work with DHCP in any
test situation. I tried both with and without the Tekram SCSI card,
also tried allocating the UMC IRQ in the motherboard BIOS. Always
failed.

-- One of the D-Link DFE-530TX+ driver files was "bad". Steven Levine
fixed the .NIF file (see above) and it works fine.

-- The Tekram SCSI card appears to conflict with the D-Link card in
every test situation. I tried moving the cards to different slots
without success. The conflict isn't obvious (i.e. no error message),
but my SCSI tape drive starts winding whenever I do something with the
D-Link card (weird). I have to spend some more time researching why
this happens.

-- My production partition (G:) somehow got its MPTS scrambled today
with all this testing, and I still have to follow up on Rollin's DLL
suggestion and see if I can unscramble it.

So I had a bad UMC network card, a bad D-Link driver file, and an
ongoing conflict with the Tekram card.

Questions:

-- 1) Concerning the bad D-Link .NIF file, is there a way to have
MPTS.EXE _tell_ you what line it didn't like?

-- 2) RMVIEW reports the D-Link driver as a "Non-Resource manager aware
device driver". How do I find out what IRQ is assigned to it?
_____

Oh, by the way, one more thing. At 8:50 p.m. this evening, with the
Tekram card yanked and the D-Link card initialized in my test (F:)
partition, I got a DHCP lease.

- Peter

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