3Com Corporation EtherDisk Diskette for the EtherLink 16 Adapters System Resources The EtherLink 16 adapter uses three system resources: - I/O address range - Interrupt level - Memory address range The adapter's options are factory-set with the following settings: - I/O base address 300 - Interrupt level 3 - Memory base address D0000 Before you install the adapter, make sure that these settings do not conflict with similar settings on other peripherals. Listed below are commonly used peripherals and the adapter option settings they might conflict with. If any of these peripherals are installed in your computer, check which resources they are using and make sure that the EtherLink 16 options are not set to use the same resources. Other peripherals not mentioned in these lists may also cause conflicts. NOTE: The codes in parentheses following a peripheral name indicate that the information applies only to those types of computers. PC -- IBM PC XT -- IBM PC/XT AT -- IBM Personal Computer AT PS/2 -- IBM Personal System/2 models containing the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus I/O Base Address ---------------- COM4: - fourth serial port 2E0 GPIB adapter 2E0 Data acquisition adapter 2E0 Prototype board 300 Interrupt Level --------------- Reserved (PC) 2 Redirected from level 9 (XT,AT) 2 EGA or VGA video adapter 2 Video (PS/2) 2 ASYNC adapter 3,4 SDLC adapter 3,4 BSC adapter 3,4 Cluster (PC,AT) 3 COM2: - second serial port (XT,AT) 3 PC network adapter 3 COM1: - first serial port (XT,AT,PS/2) 4 Hard disk controller (PC,XT,PS/2) 5 LPT2: - second parallel port (XT,AT) 5 Memory Base Address ------------------- Hard disk controller ROM (PC) C8000 Hard disk controller ROM (XT) C8000,CC000 EGA and VGA video ROM C8000,CC000 Expansion RAM D8000,DC000 (%VER System Resources v3.4a)Download Driver Pack
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