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From: marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: AppleShare PC woes
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Date: 29 Aug 90 12:11:36 GMT
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   I find that the Apple LocalTalk PC card is very flakey in my 386. If I
try to use it with polled drivers, it hangs the machine or refuses to work
properly every time I use it. I have set the dip switches to the recomended
and secondary switch settings to no avail.

   I have had a lot of success with the card when it is interupt driven. I
can print with absolutly no problem the first time I send something to the 
printer, but thye second time I print, it has a 90% or greater probability
of hanging at that point.

   I would like to know if anyone has an MLID for a Western Digital WD8003E
ethernet card, so that I can bypass using the Apple LocalTalk PC card. This
will potentially help because it may be the LocalTalk card that is the source
of the problems, and I would like to get access to my second com port back.

   I think that it is very unfortunate that the LocalTalk card can only
be set to IRQ 2,3 or 4. This is a real problem for anyone who is using two 
serial ports, especially for people who have mice and also want to use 
communications programs (i.e. Kermit)
programs at the same time.

Kevin Marinelli
Dalhousie University