Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:52:15 +0100 (BST) From: Mac <mac@ngo.org.uk> To: statik@cris.com (josh b) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 is the wacknes!! Message-ID: <200007030952.KAA17255@ngo.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20000702233303.00ad6a30@pop3.concentric.net> from josh b at "Jul 2, 0 11:35:43 pm"
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josh b Wrote
> i booted the dos disk on my freebsd stand alone machine and started the
> 3com app...it loaded..looked nice and all but i got some 'write error' i
> tried a couple of disks and still the same thing, i think now imgona take
> the card and put it in my windows computer and run it the dos util from
> there and disable pnp on the card, will that work? or will it reset the
> config as soon as i put it into anoter computer?
Ahh.
Old problem.
The 3Com Etherdisk front end utiltity (INSTALL or MENU or soemthing like
that) uses temporary batch files to launch the 3Com Diagnostic tools.
It sounds to me like you've write protected the disk you're running the
program from.
Two fixes.
1) Un write protect the disk
2) Run the Config tool directly from a DOS prompt. It's called:-
3c5x9cfg
It doesn't need write access to the place where it's run from.
On modern Etherdisks there's even a batch file called (something like)
'PNPDSABL.BAT' which does the whole thing for you automatically.
Best of luck.
Mac
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