In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!

[Craig White]

"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