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Subject: [ct-user] NETTSR !!
From: Gérard Parat <gerard.parat@detexis.thomson-csf.com> (Gérard Parat)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:38:58 +0100
Bob Naumann - N5NJ wrote :

> A couple words of advice for those of you who plan on going to
> Ethernet:
>
> 1) Make sure your Ethernet card supports "Packet Drivers"
>
> 3) Forget 3-Com cards (no packet driver support)

We use 3C509, 3C503 and 3C905 on our network and it works. Maybe latest
3-Com cards doesn't support packer driver ?

> 5) Read the tips on stopping Windows from loading from the YCCC
>    website

A must !

> 6) Get familiar with the "BOOTGUI" command in your MSDOS.SYS file.

Very useful to when you have to reboot at 3 am ...

> 8) Be prepared to pay a lot of money for a new card in a foreign
>    country if you do break one - like >$100 @ ATC Computers in St.
>    John's, Antigua.  The same card back in the States costs about $40.

BTW, second hand old 10 Mbits cards are cheap. Found cards 5$ each in
France.


--
73 Gérard f6fgz


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