FW: 3Com Case #1112962 - Re: Help!

[Giuseppe Ciaccio]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 XLin@slxcg01.csw.L-3com.com wrote:

> 
> It appears that 3Com has no interest at this time to publish the programming
> information for the 3C450 HomeConnect NICs, which come with the newly
> released HomeConnect Kit.  I don't know if it has anything to do with 3Com's
> alliance with Microsoft.  Can anyone with more experience with 3Com cast
> some light on 3Com's general policy on providing programming information on
> their cards?  I have been stoned-wall left and right.

We had the very same problem with older 3COM cards.  Apparently, 3COM does
not yield any valuable technical support to developers (there are important
exceptions though...).

For our research purposes, we eventually switched to DEC ``tulip'' and
Intel EEPro NICs :-))

Cheers!
Giuseppe


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