Obsolete comp. question (MCA)

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philo

I've got a real nice IBM 486-33 ps/2 (MCA) that i just use for fooling
around.
I've got win95 but the net card (recognized ok by the OS) was a tolken ring.

Just picked up an eithernet card which was recognized and
configured properly by setup...
however the OS just plain does not "see" it.

I've tried changing the IRQ's and even tried different slots...but no luck.
Just by chance I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions...

I can still use it as a dial-up standby machine...but it would be nice if I
could get it on my home network.
 
I've got a real nice IBM 486-33 ps/2 (MCA) that i just use for fooling
around.
I've got win95 but the net card (recognized ok by the OS) was a tolken ring.

Just picked up an eithernet card which was recognized and
configured properly by setup...
however the OS just plain does not "see" it.

I've tried changing the IRQ's and even tried different slots...but no luck.
Just by chance I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions...

I can still use it as a dial-up standby machine...but it would be nice if I
could get it on my home network.
Click to expand...

Oooooh.That's going back.Win95 didn't have ACP/PCI busmaster Steering
so you should be able to manually change the IRQs in the Device
Manager?Can take a bit of fiddling around from automatic etc.
 
I've got a real nice IBM 486-33 ps/2 (MCA) that i just use for fooling
around.
I've got win95 but the net card (recognized ok by the OS) was a tolken ring.

Just picked up an eithernet card which was recognized and
configured properly by setup...
however the OS just plain does not "see" it.
Click to expand...

You have failed to mention this "new" ethernet card.

If it's not Plug-n-play, you add it with the add new
hardware wizard. Some cards (notibly 3Com) had a DOS
utility you'd use to set PNP mode on/off, IIRC (it's been a
while).

I've tried changing the IRQ's and even tried different slots...but no luck.
Just by chance I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions...

I can still use it as a dial-up standby machine...but it would be nice if I
could get it on my home network.
Click to expand...

One option might be putting the token ring card back in and
hunting down an old hybrid switch or hub that had both token
ring and ethernet. That might be a lot of effort for such
an old box though, unless you just want it running for some
kind of historic/nostalgia reasons.
 
kony said:
You have failed to mention this "new" ethernet card.

If it's not Plug-n-play, you add it with the add new
hardware wizard. Some cards (notibly 3Com) had a DOS
utility you'd use to set PNP mode on/off, IIRC (it's been a
while).
Click to expand...


the card is a "Digital" DE212.
i did try the hw wizard and a manual installtion of the drivers too.
my guess is that the card is just plain bad.
One option might be putting the token ring card back in and
hunting down an old hybrid switch or hub that had both token
ring and ethernet. That might be a lot of effort for such
an old box though, unless you just want it running for some
kind of historic/nostalgia reasons.
Click to expand...


yes, i'm just using it for historic/nostalgia reasons...
and had thought about using a tolken ring adaptor on one of my other
machines so i could add the ps/2 to my network.

thanks for the reply
 
Shep© said:
Oooooh.That's going back.Win95 didn't have ACP/PCI busmaster Steering
so you should be able to manually change the IRQs in the Device
Manager?Can take a bit of fiddling around from automatic etc.
Click to expand...
problem is win95 does not see the card...so there are no settings to
change within the OS.
the ps/2 machine does have a setup program (a harddrive "bios")
but i've pretty much gone thru all IRQ settings there...
oh well...
it's just a machine i was fooling with...
i'll prob just put it back in the attic...
i've got plenty of other standby machines in my workshop
 
Oooooh.That's going back.Win95 didn't have ACP/PCI busmaster Steering
so you should be able to manually change the IRQs in the Device
Manager?Can take a bit of fiddling around from automatic etc.
Click to expand...

An MCA-based system shouldn't need any diddling of the I/O settings
by the Windows system. The microchannel architecture calls for the
setup utility to configure the adapters (usually automatically, but
if necessary with manual selection); the drivers are responsible for
interrogating the adapters to recover the configuration information.

Assuming that the PS/2 setup utility recognized the OP's network card,
all that should be necessary would be to ensure that the driver is
installed in Windows. I don't recall which (if any) MCA network card
drivers were shipped with Windows 95, but in any case the web site
of the network adapter would be the first place to look for the
one you need (and if necessary, the most recent data file for the NIC
used by the PS/2 setup utility to drive the configuration process).

Joe Morris
 
Assuming that the PS/2 setup utility recognized the OP's network card,
all that should be necessary would be to ensure that the driver is
installed in Windows. I don't recall which (if any) MCA network card
drivers were shipped with Windows 95, but in any case the web site
of the network adapter would be the first place to look for the
one you need (and if necessary, the most recent data file for the NIC
used by the PS/2 setup utility to drive the configuration process).

Joe Morris
Click to expand...

the macnines setup utility sees the card find and can configure it...
windows does not see the card at all.
installing the drivers does nothing.

in case it was a win95 problem...
i even installed win98se just for laughs...
but no luck...the card must be bad i guess.\
think i'll put the machine away and forget it!

thanks for the reply

Philo
 
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