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C
HAPTER
5: C
ONFIGURING
THE
NIC
Displaying Configuration Settings
Use the 3Com NIC Diagnostics program to display and
change configuration settings for the OfficeConnect NIC.
The 3Com NIC Diagnostics program is automatically
installed when you install the network driver.
To display the current configuration settings for the
OfficeConnect NIC:
1 Make sure that the NIC is installed and is connected
to the network and that the network driver is
installed.
2 Double-click the 3Com icon in the Windows
system tray.
If the 3Com icon isn’t visible in the Windows system tray,
follow these steps:
a
From the Windows
Start
menu, select
Programs
.
b
Select
3Com NIC Utilities.
c
Click
3nicdiag.
For PCs running Windows NT 3.51, from the
File
menu,
select
Run
. At the command prompt, enter the path for
the 3Com NIC Diagnostics program. The default path is
C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32\3NICDIAG.EXE
.
A warning message appears, stating that your PC will be
disconnected from the network.
This means that no applications other than the 3Com NIC
Diagnostics program will be able to connect to the network
while you run the diagnostics program.
All applications are automatically reconnected to the
network when you exit the diagnostics program. If
your PC doesn’t automatically reconnect to the
network, reboot the PC.
3 Click
OK
.
The 3Com NIC Diagnostics General screen
(Figure 16) appears.
