I have a 486dx 2-66 running Windows95 in the house with 32 megs of ram and a 486slc with 8 megs of ram and DOS 6.2 in the ham shack.
I have run rg58U coax with solder on bnc connectors at both ends which has been tested.
The network cards are new. They are combination cards and are Plug and Play. I put one in the house computer and Windows 95 saw it and installed the driver it wanted from the Windows 95 CD. The house computer is already known as Wandw_10 on the workgroup Wandw at the office. The connection to the office is by dial up.
When I look in Window95 it says that the card is a Realtek RTL8019 PnP LAN Adaptor or compatible. Under Device Manager/Properties it says the adapter is version 1.0.10, the the I/O range is 0240-025F, IRQ 11 and that it is working properly with no conflicts.
I have told the computer to share the two harddrives and the cd and the icon for each has come up with the hand under it which indicates sharing.
Not unexpectedly the computer in the ham shack, being DOS, is not as staight forward. It has 4 com ports and one hard drive. The extra 2 com ports are on IRQ 11 and 12 and all 4 com ports are working fine. MSD says both IRQ10 and IRQ 15 are open ("reserved"). I used the MS Network client v 3.0 (AKA LAN Manager). When installing it tells me it is v 2.4 and once installed DOS says it is v 2.4. But although DOS says that it is running DOS says there is no network connection.
There is a diagnostic program on the disk that came with the boards. All of its tests come out ok except that there is one that tests whether the Cable Connection/Transceivers are working and that one fails.
LAN Manager has no entry for Realtek so I chose Use Disk and stuck in the one that came with the card. It has a driver for the DOS version of LAN manager, but even though I directed LAN Manager Setup to the right directory where that driver was on the floppy it claimed there was no driver found. Since the little book that came with the cards says they are NE2000 compatible, I chose the NE2000 driver on the LAN manager disk and put it in. Window 95 computer installed the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI and TCP/IP protocols. Each shows the associated RealTek spec.
The boards have no jumpers. The diag program that comes with them allow the choice of PnP or Jumperless and then lets you set the IRQ and I/O etc. I left the I/O at the default of 300 and tried the IRQ at 15 (the default for the boards) and also at 10. Each time I changed it on the boards using the diag program and in LAN Manager using Setup to change it from that programs default of IRQ 3.
When I run Net, nothing comes up.
