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    From PaulRS@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 12 01:58:03 2018
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    Here is my dilemma: My Motherboard died. It had several card slots.
    The new one has just two plus PCI16 video.
    On my old MB I had a sound card, 3com Nic, scsi card and extra printer
    port. I can do without the printer port. I need the scsi card and
    that leaves one card slot

    My HD survived and will load eComS 2.1 with some complaining about
    either the 3com NIC or the SoundBlaster live card. I can only use one
    in the remaining slot.

    The New MB has on-board Network (I believe Intel pro100) How do I get
    this working system to install the MB Network (without screwing up
    what is already working)? I would keep the soundcard in the second
    slot.

    A short tuturiol would help . . . .

    Paul
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  • From Steven Levine@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 12 10:02:42 2018
    XPost: comp.os.os2

    On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 01:58:03 UTC, "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com>
    wrote:

    Hi,

    The New MB has on-board Network (I believe Intel pro100) How do I get
    this working system to install the MB Network (without screwing up
    what is already working)? I would keep the soundcard in the second
    slot.

    Since you already has a NIC installed, you don't want to install a new
    NIC, you want to change the current configuration to use the new NIC.

    This is done with MPTS. I forget the exact names on eCS 2.1, but here
    it's

    Local System -> System Setup -> Adapters and Protocols

    to start MPTS. Click the configure button to proceed. Then select
    the Adapters and Protocols radio button and click the Configure
    button.

    Select the old NIC in the Current Configuration listbox. Select the
    new NIC in the Network Adapters listbox. Click the Change button
    below the Network Adapters listbox. Review and access the changes.

    This assumes that the Pro100 is already one of the available NICs,
    which I think should be the case. If not, find a copy of the driver
    and copy it along with the NIF file to the \IBMCOM\MACS directory and
    try again.

    Steven


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  • From PaulRS@21:1/5 to steve53@nomail.earthlink.net on Wed Aug 15 15:04:16 2018
    XPost: comp.os.os2

    On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:02:42 UTC, "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> wrote:

    On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 01:58:03 UTC, "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com>
    wrote:

    Hi,

    The New MB has on-board Network (I believe Intel pro100) How do I get
    this working system to install the MB Network (without screwing up
    what is already working)? I would keep the soundcard in the second
    slot.

    Since you already has a NIC installed, you don't want to install a new
    NIC, you want to change the current configuration to use the new NIC.

    This is done with MPTS. I forget the exact names on eCS 2.1, but here
    it's

    Local System -> System Setup -> Adapters and Protocols

    to start MPTS. Click the configure button to proceed. Then select
    the Adapters and Protocols radio button and click the Configure
    button.

    Select the old NIC in the Current Configuration listbox. Select the
    new NIC in the Network Adapters listbox. Click the Change button
    below the Network Adapters listbox. Review and access the changes.

    This assumes that the Pro100 is already one of the available NICs,
    which I think should be the case. If not, find a copy of the driver
    and copy it along with the NIF file to the \IBMCOM\MACS directory and
    try again.

    Steven



    Thankyou Steve,
    Your instructions were PERFECT. I transfered over to the new MB
    builtin NIC without a problem.

    Paul
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