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- Notes on using the 3c507 network card with ICETCP
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- The card is SOFTWARE CONFIGURED. This means that the port address, irq,
- memory address, memory size and rom address (normally not used) are
- set in a configuration program called 3c507.exe which comes with the
- board.
-
- The configuration program may not immediatly recognize the board
- if there are io port conflicts in the machine. In this case the command
- should be given as
- 3C507 /B:###
- where ### is the address in hex of the board's desired port
- location. It should then be possible to bring up the configuration program
- the normal way by just typing 3c507 <enter>.
-
- The card can be configured using the menu option "set
- configuration". Possible problems are, as always:
-
- The irq line used cannot be shared with other devices
-
- and
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- The shared memory address must not conflict with other memory mapped
- devices or drivers, (such as qemm-386). This is a little more difficult
- than usual because the board has a large buffer. If you want to use it to
- it's fullest, you need a 64k block of open space in the C000-EFFF area. If
- there isn't a gap that large available, then a smaller buffer (as small as
- 16k is possible) should be used.
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- Also
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- The zero wait state and turbo options can also cause problems.
- On some machines, these will options will not work with the packet driver.
- On some machines, these will also not work with NDIS. With both options
- turned off, everything will work. We recommend starting with both options
- off and running the diagnostics part of the 3c507.exe program to see if
- everything is working. Then, after all software (ICE.TCP) is running,
- the zero wait state and turbo options can be tried. The diagnostics part of
- 3c507.exe is a good test for these options.
-
- Even though the board is totally software configured, the packet
- driver for the 3c507 (3c507.COM, unfortunately the same name as the
- configuration program) needs to know all of the parameters set in the
- configuration of the board. The NDIS driver does not need these parameters.
- If the packet driver fails, check the parameters for the packet driver to
- verify that you entered the same ones as when you configured the board. If it
- still doesn't work, check to see that the turbo and zero wait state options
- are turned off. If it still doesn't load, check for irq, port and memory
- address conflicts.
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- Finally, the 3COM configuration program for the board WILL NOT RUN if
- there are any active drivers (just freezes). If you need to reconfigure,
- remove the packet or ndis drivers from your autoexec.bat or
- config.sys files FIRST.
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- (C) 1991, James River Group, Inc, Minneapolis MN USA
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