[NTLK] MailV Stability/DHCP Issues

[Michael W. Arnold]

I believe you just solved my problem.  I’m connecting via a switch instead of directly to the hub.  I’ll give connecting to the hub a try and see where that lands me.
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Michael Wayne Arnold
michael at rnold.info
@marmanold

> On May 24, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Scott Ticknor <ticknor at me.com> wrote:
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> I believe that 3Com card is a wired card… i could never get DHCP to work on the Newt unless the card is wired into a hub. The Newt would never sense the network when connected to a switch. 
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>> On May 20, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Michael W. Arnold <michael at rnold.info> wrote:
>>> Afternoon all,
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>>> I recently found a 3Com 3C589C pc card new in the box on eBay.  (For only $8!!!!)
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>> Nice!
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>>> I’ve been attempting over the last several days to get e-mail working on my eMate.
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>>> Thus far DHCP doesn’t seem to work and MailV is spotty.
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>> DHCP is definitely problematic on Newtons, so you're not alone there.
>> Configuring a static IP address is best. DNS should work, though
>> you'll have to hard-code DNS servers.
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>>> Manually entering network information and referencing imap and smtp servers by IP rather than name, nets occasional successful sends and retrieves of e-mail.  Normally, however, I get random error messages stating that the connection was lost or disconnected.  Sometimes a reboot of the eMate will solve the problem.
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>>> My question: is this a MailV issue, eMate issue, something with my network, etc?
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>> My first question would be is this an upgraded eMate? Internet access
>> with just 1MB of RAM (which the MessagePad 2000 & eMate 300 came with)
>> is often just too little, but the 4MB upgrade in the eMate or a
>> MessagePad 2100 is sufficient. I wouldn't rule out network issues or
>> MailV. I haven't tried Internet on my eMate as I don't have the memory
>> upgrade, but another consideration might be the processor speed (25MHz
>> in the eMate vs 162MHz in the MessagePad 2x00s) as it's possible it
>> causes connection timeouts.
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>> I wouldn't rule out network or MailV issues, but I think you should be
>> able to get this stable enough to send basic emails.
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