Re: Etherlink III cable change problem

[Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>]

At 10:05 AM 7/9/96 -0400, Shinichi Sakata wrote:
>The only useful information I got in the phone call was that the 3com
>drivers only check the connected transceiver at the boot time. When
>the card service tells the drive to reinitialize the network card, the
>driver uses the previously obtained information about the transceiver
>instead of checking it again. The tech guy could not explain why the
>driver was designed in this way.

You might be able to use card services such that you could unplug the card,
have the drivers unloaded, then plug it back in and have them reload (and
re-check). I'm not certain (I know this would work on 95, but I haven't used
OS/2 PnP support for PC Cards enough lately!), but it's worth a try!

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