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C
HAPTER
5: C
ONFIGURING
THE
NIC
Each configuration setting is displayed with its current value.
For a description of each setting, click the question mark in
the upper right corner of the screen, drag it to a setting,
and click once. A pop-up box appears, displaying
information for the selected setting.
5 Click
OK
to exit this screen.
Changing Configuration Settings
To change OfficeConnect NIC configuration settings:
1 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.
2 Click
OK
.
3 Click the Properties tab.
The 3Com NIC Diagnostics Properties screen
(Figure 18) appears.
