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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:36:32 PST
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: NIC driver appears to unload itself

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In <38EA1F72.637B@peterskye.com>, on 04/04/00
at 08:59 AM, Peter Skye said:

>I have several identical 10 Mbit Ethernet cards whose driver appears to
>load but which does not show up in RMVIEW.

This normal for NIC drivers that are not Resource Manager aware. Few are.

>The driver issues its load messages during bootup and does not issue an
>error message. My best guess is that the driver is unloading itself
>because it either can't find the card or can't determine the card's IRQ.

Do a RMVIEW /D or /D1. This will show if the driver is loaded. Most
drivers support the /V option.

> NE2000-Compatible NDIS 2.0.1 Network Driver, Version:2.4
> NE2000-Compatible Adapter I/O ADDR:0300h, IRQ 3.

>Note the IRQ 3 in the second line. I took a look inside the AN16.OS2
>device driver file and found these two lines were hard coded, i.e. this
>OS/2 driver _always_ reports PORT 300 and IRQ 3 no matter how the card is
>actually set up.

OK, it's a cheap NE-2000 clone. These may be the defaults. Did you
specify the correct values in PROTOCOL.INI?

>The driver is dated July 6 1993. I purchased these cards new about three
>years ago.

These are reference drivers. You can often substitute another NE-2000
driver.

>Before I reinitialize the card to IRQ 3, move COM2 (currently on IRQ 3)
>to another IRQ, and try again, I'd like to know:

See above.

>-- if I'm looking at this problem incorrectly and should be trying
>something else.

Yes.

>-- if I should trash these "AN16" cards and use the D-Link cards I have
>on the shelf.

Well, the performance will probably be much better.

Steven

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