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Re: Adding a MB Network "card"

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:02:42 UTC, "Steven Levine" 
<steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 01:58:03 UTC, "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > The New MB has on-board Network (I believe Intel pro100)  How do I get
> > this working system to install the MB Network  (without screwing up 
> > what is already working)?  I would keep the soundcard in the second 
> > slot.
> 
> Since you already has a NIC installed, you don't want to install a new
> NIC, you want to change the current configuration to use the new NIC.
> 
> This is done with MPTS.  I forget the exact names on eCS 2.1, but here
> it's
> 
>   Local System -> System Setup -> Adapters and Protocols
> 
> to start MPTS.  Click the configure button to proceed.  Then select 
> the Adapters and Protocols radio button and click the Configure 
> button.
> 
> Select the old NIC in the Current Configuration listbox.  Select the 
> new NIC in the Network Adapters listbox.   Click the Change button 
> below the Network Adapters listbox.  Review and access the changes.
> 
> This assumes that the Pro100 is already one of the available NICs, 
> which I think should be the case.  If not, find a copy of the driver 
> and copy it along with the NIF file to the \IBMCOM\MACS directory and 
> try again.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 

Thankyou Steve,
  Your instructions were PERFECT.  I transfered over to the new MB 
builtin NIC without a problem.

     Paul
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Adding a MB Network "card" "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com> - 2018-08-12 01:58 +0000
  Re: Adding a MB Network "card" "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2018-08-12 10:02 -0500
    Re: Adding a MB Network "card" "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com> - 2018-08-15 15:04 +0000

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