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Date:	Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:02:35 PST8
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: PUSH onto PROBLEM STACK

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Rocky:

Do you have the correct driver for the D-Link card? You might want to try the NICPak
page (http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/nicpak/. Other than that I can't help you.

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:41:23 PST8, Michael Rakijas wrote:

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>Hi folks,
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>Well, I'm finally getting back to trying to squash the TCP/IP bug with my home
>network and the one eCS machine on it. My current strategy was to set up
>another dummy eCS machine. Unfortunately, setup problems that occur get pushed
>onto, and need to get popped off the problem stack before I can address my
>objective. In short, I can't get the eCS machine to recognize, and load the
>driver for the network card, a D-Link 530TX+ 10/100 adapter.
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>I've tried all the obvious stuff. I've swapped out cards and I'm pretty sure
>it's not hardware because I can run the DOS-based diagnostics in a DOS session
>and it sees the card fine. The diagnostics themselves look good. I deinstalled
>and reinstalled MPTS with the driver for the card with no change in behavior.
>The objective machine that I am trying to debug uses the card and loads the
>driver with no difficulty. I confirmed no corruption with the driver files
>(DLKRTS.NIF, DLKRTS.OS2 and PROTOCOL.INI). When booting this dummy
machine, the
>driver states that no netcards were found and a serious error is reported. The
>driver, loaded soon after the UDF driver banner, refuses to load.
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>The only remaining thing I could think of was a BIOS conflict. I updated the
>BIOS (a Dell XPS R450) to the most recent available and the IRQ reported by the
>diagnostics (IRQ11) is set to available in the BIOS resource settings. The
>address reported by the diagnostics is 1000H but I see nowhere in the BIOS where
>I can make sure that that address is available. Does anyone have any
>suggestions that I might try? Thanks in advance.
>
>-Rocky
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