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First post, by SteveC

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Hi all,

I have this ISA NIC (says TopWare on the back, nothing else) and am wondering jumper settings (IRQ one is the only obvious one) and what drivers for DOS/Windows 3.1.

Cheers,
Steve

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Reply 1 of 6, by mkarcher

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It's a standard NE2000 clone. The NE2000 drivers should do fine with it. As you only have two jumpers for the base, it's very likely that the choices are 300/320/340/360. As the standard configuration of NE2000 cards is 300, I guess "both jumpers set" is 300 on this board. So just try to load the NE2000 driver with IO=300, IRQ=10, and it will most likely work out of the box.

EDIT: later on in this thread, the OP reported back: The card is currently set to IO=360. So IO=300 would be "both jumpers open". With a single of the two jumpers closed, you get 320 or 340, depending on which jumper is closed.

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Reply 2 of 6, by SteveC

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Thanks I'll try that 😀 Just found some UMC UM9003F drivers that weren't viruses too!

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Reply 4 of 6, by SteveC

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The UM9003F drivers expect a PnP card so they're no good, but I used the generic e16pkt.com and with a bit of trial and error it turns out both jumpers on equals 0x360 as the address!

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Reply 5 of 6, by mkarcher

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SteveC wrote on 2022-09-18, 17:52:

The UM9003F drivers expect a PnP card so they're no good, but I used the generic e16pkt.com and with a bit of trial and error it turns out both jumpers on equals 0x360 as the address!

Thanks for reporting back. To get to the usual base address 0x300, you would likely need to pull both base address jumpers, but the card will work fine at 360, too. Be aware that the I/O range extends up to 0x371. Likely the card doesn't respond to 0x378-0x37A (default addresses of the primary parallel port), but other conflicts in the 0x370 range might be possible.

Reply 6 of 6, by SteveC

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It seems to be working fine 😀 Just used mtcp as the ftp server and dumped a copy of the hard drive.... managed to reach 5mbps! 😀

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