In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!

"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 02. Jul, 2001 schwäzte foodog so:
>
> > James, I'd suggest getting a copy of 3C5X9CFG.EXE and a DOS boot disk to
> > get your nics configured. Should be able to D/L it from 3com.com.
> > It'll also run diagnostics for you. Good luck
>
> A clone has been available for Linux for years. I was using Slackware last
> time I used it...
>
> Here's info for debian. Other distros might be different :).
>
> 3c5x9utils - Configuration and diagnostic utils for 3Com 5x9 cards.
>
> It didn't have the little menu thingy, but it was functional.
>
> Also look at the mii packages.
>
> mii-diag - A little tool to manipulate network cards
> net-tools - The NET-3 networking toolkit
>
> The latter has mii-tool.
>
> I also notice something else in debian.
>
> nictools-nopci - Diagnostic tools for many non-PCI ethernet cards
>
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Some DOS habits die hard.

Thanks for the clues.

Craig