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Re: DEC EtherWORKS 3 Turbo Latest Drivers ???

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From: Nigel Barker
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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On Tue, 09 Jan 96 07:28:02 GMT, David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I  have  just installed some DEC EtherWORKS 3 Turbo  ISA  network 
>cards under Windows for Workgroup 3.11. I want to use the network 
>under  DOS, but the NET START command produces some  errors,  and 
>the driver fails to "bind". 
>
>If  this  is a well recognised problem with a known  solution,  I 
>thought  this  would  be the place to ask. If  I  need  some  new 
>drivers, can someone tell me where to get them from? I've tried
>
>ftp.pc.digital.com  and ftp.digital.com, but can't  find  network 
>cards  listed. The PC site has OPTIONS but networks cards  aren't 
>there.
>
>I  want to let the server run Windows, but be able to  access  it 
>from DOS on the other systems.
>
>My drivers are dated mid 1994 - and they are from a WFW directory,
>so why doesn't the  windows installation  (which works fine  under 
>WFW, also work from DOS?
>-- 
>David Longley

Windows 95 has native drivers for these cards. I have one in each of the PCs
that I have & they work flawlessly.

-- 
Nigel Barker - nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk
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From: nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk (Nigel Barker)
Subject: Re: DEC EtherWORKS 3 Turbo Latest Drivers ???
Date: 1996/01/09
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