From: "michael block" <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 3c509b troubles
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:11:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3df301650808291611k71494638saab56b16cb289668@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080829192046.GA8069@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:20 PM, <plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:40:29PM -0500, michael block wrote:
>>
>> from what i can tell by gleaning the 9fans archives, the 3c509b is
>> quite a troublesome card. i found rumors of a dos utility that would
>> convince the card to change its port and irq. i think this leaves me
>> with two questions. first, where do i find this fabled configuration
>> program? googling has proved fruitless.
>
> Frail memory triumphs over the almighty Google at last!
>
> 3C5X9CFG.EXE can be found in this self-extracting archive:
>
> ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509/3c509x2.exe
>
> I think it needs 3C5X9ENG.HLP from the same archive as well.
>
>
a windows machine with isa slots will be available to me on tuesday.
i'll try this out and see what happens. of course a better solution
would be to just fork over the cash for a better card...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 17:40 michael block
2008-08-29 18:06 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-29 22:56 ` michael block
2008-08-29 18:42 ` Antonin Vecera
2008-08-29 19:20 ` plan9
2008-08-29 23:11 ` michael block [this message]
2008-08-29 23:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-08-30 0:05 ` michael block
2008-08-30 0:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-08-30 3:39 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-30 1:25 ` michael block
2008-08-30 5:05 ` lucio
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