Re: Etherlink III cable change problem

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From: Shinichi Sakata (ssakata_at_econ.lsa.umich.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 09 1996 - 12:24:05 EDT


Thanks for your suggestion, but I have already tried it. It did not
work, unfortunately.

  Shinichi

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Hultquist <ssh_at_wwsi.com> writes:

    Steve> At 10:05 AM 7/9/96 -0400, Shinichi Sakata wrote:
>> The only useful information I got in the phone call was that
>> the 3com drivers only check the connected transceiver at the
>> boot time. When the card service tells the drive to
>> reinitialize the network card, the driver uses the previously
>> obtained information about the transceiver instead of checking
>> it again. The tech guy could not explain why the driver was
>> designed in this way.

    Steve> You might be able to use card services such that you could
    Steve> unplug the card, have the drivers unloaded, then plug it
    Steve> back in and have them reload (and re-check). I'm not
    Steve> certain (I know this would work on 95, but I haven't used
    Steve> OS/2 PnP support for PC Cards enough lately!), but it's
    Steve> worth a try!

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