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From: Robert Mascaro
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:30

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In my job I have come across 2 types of driver software for cards we
have (3com, wdigital). W digital (for TCP) ask you have two .sys files in
config.sys which have configured to base(shared) address, the irq and
the i/o address. The 3com cards you do this by just running the driver
with the appropriate paramters listed above.
My question is, why are the 2 methods different (how??) ,
 how does the
shared address (above 640k) work, how and why is the i/o address at 300h
or 280h etc. 
I dont understand how it all fits together, although I dont seems to
have much trouble configuring them.
Please help.
Regards,
Rob.

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From: rmascaro@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Robert Mascaro)
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Subject: ethernet card drivers
Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:30:08 +0800
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