DOS/WFW3.11 network drivers

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I have a computer with Windows 3.11 installed on it and a Genius LAN card New GE2000 III (chipset K1306023 (8019AS)).

I downloaded the driver for the card from Genius.

I can’t get Windows setup to see the OEMSETUP.INF file that it needs to install the driver. I would like to either find out why Win3.11 won’t see the WFW3.11 driver or can someone tell me how to install a network driver in DOS?

Thanks in anticipation

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1. Open your OEMSETUP.INF file for Windows 3.x. This is contents of the file for 3COM 3C509 NIC:

[disks]
1 = WFW311 ,”3Com Etherdisk”, 3c5x9cfg.exe
2 = NDIS2DOS ,”3Com Etherdisk”, 3c5x9cfg.exe
3 = NWCLIENT ,”3Com Etherdisk”, 3c5x9cfg.exe

[netcard]
tcm$elnk3=”3Com EtherLink 10 ISA (3C509b)”,0,ndis,ethernet,0x07,tcm$elnk3,tcm$elnk3_nif

[tcm$elnk3]
ndis3=1:elnk3.386
ndis2=2:elnk3.dos
mlid=3:3c5x9.com

[tcm$elnk3_nif]
DRIVERNAME=ELNK3$
io=IOADDRESS,,hex,”0x200,0x3F0,0x10″,0x300,0x32
slot=SLOT,”Adapter Slot Number”,int,”1,8,1″,1,0×32
param=MAXTRANSMITS,”Maximum Transmits”,int,”2,50,1″,6,0×32

Is your file look similar? (there are another Oemsetup files for Win95 and WinNT).

2. To install network driver from DOS, the files PROTMAN.DOS, PROTMAN.EXE and NETBIND.COM are required. Download them from
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/msclient/DSK3-1.EXE
Run this EXE to decompress the files and read README.TXT for further steps.
To install NIC driver you must to add a line in CONFIG.SYS:

;For example, for 3COM 3C509 NIC
DEVICE=ELNK3.DOS

Also add the corresponding line in PROTOCOL.INI:

;For example, for 3COM 3C509 NIC
[nic]
drivername = ELNK3$

Modify these lines for your driver.

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Thanks for your reply, I’ll try what you suggest and post back to the board

The Readme.txt didn’t seem too helpful – it refers me to the manual – but I’ll follow my nose.

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Beautiful, it works perfectly now. Thanks for your help, kaplinb.

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