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Well, I finally got my 3com card working!! I was having problems getting my PC-NFS software to talk to the card. It turned out that the software was too old of a version to be able to work. I switched to some newer IBM TCP/IP software which supports NDIS drivers. Interestingly, this software is not listed at all on the official 3com supported-software fax list. Although the IBM software doesn't specifically support the 3c589, it does support the 3c509 Etherlink III AT-bus card. I did the install for the 3c509, and then I manually installed the NDIS driver for the 3c589 (came on 3c589 floppy). This involved modifying config.sys and protman.ini to use the ELPC3 driver instead of the ELNK3 driver. I can now do a backup of my TP750 hard drive onto my unix workstation hard drive, just by doing a DOS xcopy. My Megahertz modem operation seems to be unaffected by having the 3com card also installed. I haven't tried to use them both in the same session, actually this is impossible to do: You can't use the Xjack with the Ethernet pigtail also installed, because they physically interfere with each other. I don't know what's up with 3com, but it seems that I never got billed for the 3c589 either!! --andy