[olug] eth0 question

[tetherow at nol.org]

On 28 Aug, Dave Burchell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:43:10PM -0500, tetherow at nol.org wrote:
> 
>> Some cards come with tools to set the various settings in DOS or
>> windows (3Com being most prominent) but of course this requires dual
>> boot or wine/dosemu installation.
> 
> I've had good luck with booting DOS (such as MS-DOS version 5.0) from a
> floppy, then running the provided DOS util that came with the card.  Do
> this and you may be able to avoid an MS-Windows install.
> 
> BTW, I hate it when a vendor provides you a DOS-only card config util.
> Why don't they write it in Java so we can use it with our Macs and
> SPARC machines too?  ;-)
> 

The system interface in java is OS dependant and would basically defeat
the purpose of writing it in java in the first place (other than the
same GUI cross platform).

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Sam Tetherow                           tetherow at nol.org
Director of Development
NIC Labs (IDG)                         http://www.nicusa.com


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