I have installed SCO 5.04 on a Dell

[michaelwild]

I have installed SCO 5.04 on a Dell OptiPlex Pentium II. Since there is a 3COM Etherlink III card installed I assume the original onboard NIC is not functioning. The network card is not recognized even though it is listed in Network Manager. I also get a port mapping error on bootup but I checked /etc/hosts and there is only the one IP address. Do I need to load a driver for the 3COM card? I have the media image file( format VOL.000.000) on my Windows PC but since rawrite doesn't work I assume the file is compressed. How do I get it into a format so rawrite will enable me to put a copy on a floppy to transfer to my UNIX box?

 

[Annihilannic]

You don't need to create a floppy. Simply place that file somewhere on your SCO system, choose media images as your installation medium, then enter the name of the directory where the file is located. Annihilannic.

 

[michaelwild]

I appreciate your help - you have been very busy answering a number of posts. My current situation is that I have removed the PCI Ethernet card and am trying to determine if the onboard NIC is functional. SCO accepted my choice of that LAN hardware and I believe I have set up TCP/IP correctly. But I can't ping to the UNIX box and if I try to use the Netscape browser I get an error saying Netscape is unable to locate the server

http://www.SCO.com

- the server does not have a DNS entry. Following that is a message about home.netscape.com and 2 other sites - the hosts are unknown and there might be a problem with my name server.

So I am going to research DNS and get a network tech guy on campus to test this built in NIC. Any further comments/suggestions will be much appreciated.

P.S. All of my Windows PC's have a gateway IP address - I'm going to try your suggestion of "route add default" followed by the gateway IP address.