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Add hardware later?



On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:

> 
> Here's my question: how do you know what IRQ and interupt to specify for
> your card?  The Net3-4 HOWTO tells me that my card's manufacturer
> probably sent me a DOS disk that lets me configure my card.  I don't
> have that.  The card I have is a good old 3COM 509.  3COM's site has no
> configuration utilities for the card that I could find either.

Use the utilities on the DOS driver disk (you can download this from
3Com's site).

Or, try these out:

ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup

3c5x9setup.c is a setup/diagnostic program which may not have as many
features as the DOS util that 3com ships. Works for me though.

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