On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:20 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...
