Re: Drivers for 3Com Etherlink III - 3C589B?

[Michael Verne/VENTANA <Michael_Verne/VENTANA.ITP@lgate.vmedia.com>]

".....I have a 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card for my TP755CE.  I would like to be 
able to hook this to our local netwrok of mostly SGI and Sun workstations 
so that I can do ftp/telnet/SLIP/etc.  I understand that the public 
domain software Trumpet would let me do this.  I have the trumpet 
software, but I don't know where to find the drivers for this and the PC 
card to work together.
Can someone give me directions on where I can find the driver and 
configure the PC card to use trumpet?  We have no resident experts on PC 
networking at our site.  I do plan on running Linux on the TP once I 
figure out how to do it, and I am in the process of investigating what I 
need to do.
Also, if I upgrade MS Windows 3.11 to WWG 3.11, would I be able to mount 
the disks on our unix workstations and fileserver?  Or would I need Sun 
PC-NFS or similar software?....."

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I'm not sure what all of your needs are, but the tcp/ip stack that comes with 
the WFWG license (WinTCP) serves all of our thinkpads beautifully for inet 
access over the LAN.  We use the Xircom, not 3Com, cards, but we don't need no 
steenking Trumpet to get T1 speed ftp/telnet/www etc.  not sure what you mean 
by SLIP over the LAN, unless you mean redirecting a com port to a network modem 
& SLIPing in from there, in which case you will need something more than 
WinTCP.  But if your inet server is on your LAN, all you need is the ip 
addresses of the server & the gateway to get there with WinTCP (you'll also 
avoid spending windoze memory on a third party product).

Michael J. Verne
michael_verne@vmedia.com
Systems Analyst, Ventana Communications Group, Inc.