Western Digital Ethercard Plus NDIS drivers and multiple load problems

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From: Michael A. Shiels
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 00:50

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If anyone out there is trying to load the Western Digital Ethercard Plus
drivers multiple times under OS/2 (because you have 2 or 3 cards etc),
WATCH OUT.  There is a bug in the way they wrote there drivers.  They can't
be loaded multiple times.  We tested versions 1.04 and 1.08.

What you have to do is take a copy of the driver and change all MACWD$ strings
in one copy to MACW0$ and in another to MACW1$ etc etc.  Then in the PROTOCOL.INI
file just reference the correct names.  It just seems that there driver has a
hard coded MACWD$ to match in the protocol.ini which means that both occurances
of the driver will match the first entry and then the second driver complains.

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From: mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.pcnet,comp.protocols.misc,comp.os2.misc
Subject: Western Digital Ethercard Plus NDIS drivers and multiple load problems
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.005049.14128@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:50:49 GMT
Reply-To: mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels)
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Organization: BMB Compuscience Canada Ltd./MaS Network Software and Consulting
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