To do so, open Control Panel and click the Network icon. When the Network Properties dialog box opens, select the Adapters tab and double-click your network adapter. When you do, you'll see any configurable parameters, as shown in Figure B . Figure B Compare Windows NT's network card settings to the settings used by the physical card. For example, SMC cards use a piece of software called EZStart to configure such things as the card's IRQ and base memory address, as shown in Figure C .
Some network cards use software for configuration.
If your network card doesn't use configuration software, it may have jumpers on the card that control these settings. Because these types of cable are so dissimilar, they require different troubleshooting methods. Needless to say, most cable problems on coax-based networks affect multiple PCs. If you have a communication failure but your terminators are connected and are the correct type, you should check for a cable break. Breaks or shorts in coax cables are often hard to find, because they aren't always visible to the naked eye.