Ref: 20570004
Title: Fix for IBM Token Ring Firmware
Date:  4/3/91

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

Customers with the newly released IBM 16/4 Token Ring quarter card
installed in PCs have seen unreliable network connections to both Novell
and 3Com servers.  During heavy network traffic, connections are dropped.
The problem has been resolved by an IBM firmware fix.

The problem 16/4 Token Ring quarter cards can be identified by the two
ROMs on the card labeled:

              74F9325 ODD  IBM CORP 1990
              74F9326 EVEN IBM CORP 1990

The updated ROMs can be identified by the two ROMs labeled:

              92F4538 EVEN IBM CORP 1990,1991
              92F4539      IBM CORP 1990,1991

To obtain the updated ROMs, contact the IBM Token Ring support
organization in North Carolina.


