Linksys FENSK05 manual Running the Card’s Diagnostics, Cd a\diag diag

Appendix

Running the Card’s Diagnostics

If you suspect that there may be a problem with the EtherFast Card, you can use the DIAG diagnostic pro- gram on the EtherFast Card disk to test the card's inter- nal and external network functions.

To run the program, start up your computer in DOS. The program only works in standard DOS – it won't work in a Windows DOS window. If you are using Windows, you can get to DOS by restarting your com- puter, then by pressing the F8 key when the Starting Windows... message appears. From the menu that is shown next, choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only. If you’re using NT, boot up your PC with a DOS boot disk or Windows Recovery Disk.

1.Insert the EtherFast Card into drive A. Then from the DOS command prompt (C:\>), type the following com- mands in order. Press Enter after each one:

a:

cd a:\diag diag

2.When the EtherFast Diagnostics Program appears, press Alt-Tto start the testing procedure.

3.When the Testing window appears, use your arrow keys and spacebar on the keyboard to put an X next to the tests you'd like to run. The tests include Register, LoopBack, Peer-to-Peer, Ping, and Bandwidth.

Note: Peer-to-Peer is designed to test the signal between two PCs. Both PCs must be running the test at the same

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