From: Mike Wenczel (m.wenczel_at_cwix.com)
Date: Fri Oct 16 1998 - 18:30:18 EDT
>Is this with the 2.0 3Com drivers? What settings is the card using?
Yes, the 2.0 drivers. IRQ 9, Memory range D000, I/O 3000.
The 3Com support person at first thought there was updated Cardwizard
software. I'll be looking for it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Geary <mg_at_mg.to>
To: Mike Wenczel <m.wenczel_at_cwix.com>; THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
<THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: 3Com Cardbus [770ED]
>> From: Mike Wenczel [mailto:m.wenczel_at_cwix.com]
>>
>> Well, I finally got around to installing NT4 and did manage to get the
>> 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFE575BT 10/100 CardBus Ethernet adapter ($100 eval
>> pricing) running. After speaking with 3Com support, I installed NT
without
>> SystemSoft Cardwizard. I also installed the latest (last week's) BIOS.
>> Everything works fine. I must say that one reason (besides
>> laziness) for not
>> installing NT sooner was that, for me, Win95b was surprisingly stable on
>> this machine (PII 266, 128mb).
>
>Is this with the 2.0 3Com drivers? What settings is the card using?
>
>I never got a 3CCFE575BT (where do they get these model numbers?!) to work
>under NT on either a TP600 or a 760E. I did get an older 3C575-TX to work
on
>both machines, but only if I used the 1.1 3Com drivers, not the 2.0.
Finally
>gave up and put Xircom cards in both machines.
>
>> What am I missing not using Cardwizard?
>
>Hotswapping the network card, maybe more. Without it, you have to shut down
>NT to insert or remove the network card.
>
>Myself, I'd hate to lose that capability. I hardly ever reboot NT, but I
>frequently remove the network card. The IBM-supplied CardWizard has always
>worked perfectly on my TP600 for that.
>
>-Mike
>
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