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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:11:34 -0500
From: "michael block" <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 3c509b troubles
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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...