First: a NE2000 card is a UMC UM9008F, not a 9003, that's why the SETUP program wasn't working
Second:download the file called 'cn650ep.zip' and unzip the SETUP.EXE file to a floppy, you can select 3 modes:
1-JumperFree
2-Plug and Play
3-AutoSense
If you use autosense, it will auto detect if you bios is PnP compatible or not
Third:May be a coincidence, but i'm replying you through a NE2000 card in Win95. Hehe
Four:If you need the packet driver for arachne i have that file

chinny22 wrote:

I want to change the IRQ as it’s currently conflicting with Com2.

If you're desperate, why not change the IRQ for COM2 in your BIOS?

Afraid it’s not that easy. 🙁
I tried each zip file from the link & the only one that even detected the card was um9003af.zip which I agree is wrong for my card but at least its setup is able to detect other ne2000 based cards (that’s how I found out its on IRQ 3)

Setup from cn650ep.zip says no card installed in the system. It is & happly working in Win98, I've just lost Com2

Got a NE2000 in my 486 back in oz, works with any OS that I was playing around with, helped I had its disk though!
I don’t suppose your card is the same as mine is it?

> First: a NE2000 card is a UMC UM9008F, not a 9003,

Both are NE2000 compatibles.

Is the card configured by jumpers or switches, maybe?

no jumpers or such, here is a pic but doubt It'll help

I could change/disable Com2 if it comes to that but the perfectionist in me wants to keep Com2 where it belongs, after all he was there first!

sebaz_ri wrote:

3-AutoSense

Are you really sure? Auto Sense is usually the automatic detection of crossed vs parallel connection on power up.

I think in this context its different, doubt something as old as a ne2000 could work something out like what type cable is attached, remember most of these still had a BNC connection.

Is the crystal 20 or 25MHz? 25 would hint at a 10/100Mbit capable card.

Looking at UMC drivers won't get you anywhere. Look for Microdyne, like http://driverzone.com/drivers/microdyne/ .

Microdyne EtherMAX ISA or Microdyne EtherMAX 10/100 ISA are names from a quick google search.

@h-a-l-9000 Both my NE2000 cards are based on the UMC UM9008F chip

Problem is ne2000 is basically a standard with many chipsets (kind of like sound blaster is a standard but doesn't mean it's a Creative card)

What tricked me was Eagle was taken over by Microdyne, another big player in the day which was more expensive so I assumed my "Eagle by Microdyne" was the value range so focused on the part/chip numbers or Eagle branding, H-A-L 9000 got me thinking instead focus more on Microdyne NE2000 as really its their card and their setup would have a better chance of supporting my chip even if its not exactly the same card.
I found this site which WORKS WITH MY CARD 😀

http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.dvgu.ru/pub/Pl … icrodyne-ne2000
I bet my card back in Oz uses different chipset again, (but I have the disk for that!)

I could start talking about the fun I had with netware 3.12 and so called ne2000 cards but while I enjoyed that “nos” once up, not so much setting up I think it may be wayyyyy of topic so I'll leave it with

Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions often you just need someone to get you thinking in a different direction & everything falls in place!

Edit, formatting

Chinny,

I know this is a super old post, but I have the exact same NIC as you in this post, and the links you gave to download the utility/driver is dead or I can't get it to work right. Do you still have those two files by chance? 2000-d1.zip and 2000-ut.zip?

Thanks so much..

2000-d1.zip can be found at https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=73207
2000-ut.zip is harder to find. I would be interested in adding it to my library.

Sorry I don't, and cant find any drivers for it at home. I guess its something I lost when I repartitioned the wrong HDD a few years ago and haven't noticed I'm missing them as I've got plenty of brand name cards now.

I remember I got it going, changed something and it didn't work again, so just swapped it for a 3Com in my Dell Win98 build as this card behaves fine in 98 and the 3Com was easier to get working in Dos/Win3x

debs3759 wrote on 2018-05-17, 05:26:

2000-d1.zip can be found at https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=73207
2000-ut.zip is harder to find. I would be interested in adding it to my library.

Sadly, nothing can be downloaded from there at the moment. And the fantastic Internet Archive does not have those two files archived, either. 🙁

I find it sad that not even the Vogons driver library has NE2000 drivers., apart the DOS packet driver.

Hi (I registered for this !)

I had the configuration problem and found a floppy image that contains tools for many network cards (various ne2000 and more)
The image was found here: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~babulicm/bsdwall/nic.html (bottom of page, link "NIC Config Floppy")
It's a raw floppy image, so use your favorite tool to write it to a floppy (it does not look like it worked when you write it (random partitions) but it booted successfully on my computer)

I made a copy on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/dos_network_card_config_software
(and you will also find the files/programs extracted from the floppy image)

Happy configuration

vik wrote on 2020-08-13, 23:18:

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Hi (I registered for this !)

I had the configuration problem and found a floppy image that contains tools for many network cards (various ne2000 and more)
The image was found here: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~babulicm/bsdwall/nic.html (bottom of page, link "NIC Config Floppy")
It's a raw floppy image, so use your favorite tool to write it to a floppy (it does not look like it worked when you write it (random partitions) but it booted successfully on my computer)

I made a copy on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/dos_network_card_config_software
(and you will also find the files/programs extracted from the floppy image)

Happy configuration

Thank you - and let us all hope the awesome Internet Archive lives for a very long time.