Network Card won't load

[mtherien]

Hi,
Installing novell 4.11 on a AMD machine. After selecting my driver for the NIC card, the setup is unable to load the NIC. I tried with different cards but no luck. Setup ask for slot number and node number. Is there a way to know wich one to use? It is a PCI card. My last try was with a 3com 3c905c-tx-m.

I tried using ALT-ESC to go to the prompt and type load file_name.lan to get the possible slot number but no luck either.

Please help

 

[sobak]

I would go out to the Manufacture and download a new driver. My experience with NetWare is that if it has to ask you the slot number then it can't find it on the bus or you have an IRQ conflict. Try to us the new driver and see what result that has.

david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*

 

[Guest_imported]

I wonder if this is anything like the problem I had whilst trying to load up a HP NIC driver during an install. As the system was from the original Novell CD it wasn't patched up to the latest level and so was using an older version of the ETHERTSM.NLM and MSM.NLM files.

After installing the driver during the 4.11 install press ALT + ESC and switch to the console and unload both of these files, then load the newer versions of them before continuing the installation. The newer versions 'should' have come with the NIC.

Once the system is running straight after the install and you can connect to it with a client, replace the old versions of ETHERTSM.NLM and MSM.NLM located in the SYS\SYSTEM\ directory with your new one's, and then restart the machine.

Its a long shot, but hey it worked for us.

 

[tlcscousin]

Did you try BIND IPX to 3c90x in the autoexec.ncf file?
The slot number you can put in 001 it will find the slot itself anyways. the node number can be any characters abc534. You need the bind done though.