networking and win2k

[Voodoo Rufus]

I've recently set up a network connection at school. My 3com ISA 3c515TX lan card is recognized on bootup but once windows 2000 loads, the link is shut off again, and there's nothing I can find to get it running again. Any suggestions would be nice.

[Maddman]

Unfortunatly it looks like it is not on the hardware compatibility list for win2k.

[Voodoo Rufus]

win2k loads the driver for the card on bootup, though. This just doesn't make sense.

[Voodoo Rufus]

my lan card is on the compatibility list. I can only assume that my os is messed up somewhere in the settings. Any idea on where I can look around in windows?

[ken257]

Those old cards are not plug and play. Windows may have been able to pick up the card and determine what driver to use but 9 times out of 10 it gets the resources messed up. Manually specify the I/O and irq.

Another possibility is if it seems that the driver is wrong most of those old cards are Novel compatible. Go add new hardware and select Network cards then Novel/Anthem and NE2000 compatible. You will still need to know the I/O and irq which are prob set by jumpers on the card or by running an old dos based setup prog for the nic.

[Voodoo Rufus]

I tried something else. I swapped network cards with my roommate and now I get the link light in windows, but the ip address is one of the default one that's in windows. The card's supposed to get a valid ip address automatically from the server. Either that or I can set up a proxy to get it for me. Right now I can't access web sites yet. The new card is a Linksys PCI 10/100. Any more ideas?