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Q107347: Network Card Drivers That Must Load in Conventional Memory

Article: Q107347
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 3.x Retail Product
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.11
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 26-SEP-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 
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SUMMARY
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To operate correctly, certain network card drivers require that you load them
into conventional memory. These cards all use bus-mastering direct memory access
(DMA) for transferring data, which prevents the drivers from being loaded into
the upper memory blocks (UMBs).

Below is a list of these network adapters and the corresponding driver names.

  Network card                                Driver name
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  Advanced Micro Devices AM2100/AM1500T        AM2100.DOS
  DLINK DE500 VLB                               DE500.DOS
  Exos 105                                     AM2100.DOS
  Novell/Anthem NE1500T                        AM2100.DOS
  Novell/Anthem NE2100                         AM2100.DOS
  Zenith Data Systems Z-Note                   I82593.DOS

For testing, load the network drivers into conventional memory by replacing the
NET START line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following line:

  net start /nohi


Additional query words: 3.11

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbWFWSearch kbWFW311
Version           : WINDOWS:3.11

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