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The following is the setup I used to successfully utilize the
EXCELAN EXOS 205T Ethernet card with DRMDOS v5.1.
Step #1: Install the Novell LAN WORKPLACE FOR DOS v4.x software
onto your hard disk
Step #2: Use Novell's SHGEN and the DRMDOS supplied IPX.OBJ file
to generate a IPX.COM file for the EXOS 205T card.
Step #3: Create (or add to) your CCONFIG.SYS the following commands
ENVSIZE=4096
SET COMSPEC=C:\OSUTILS\COMMAND.COM
SET EXCELAN=C:\XLN
LASTDRIVE=C
INSTALL=C:\OSUTILS\COMMAND.COM /C C:\OSUTILS\MNET.BAT
INSTALL=C:\OSUTILS\IPX.COM
Step #4: Create a BATCH file called "MNET.BAT" so that it contains
the following commands...
C:\XLN\TCP\INIT.EXE F:=C:\XLN\TCP\NX205F.86 S=72 HI=0
C:\XLN\TCP\DRIVER.EXE
C:\XLN\TCP\DRCNTL.EXE -R
C:\XLN\TCP\NETLOAD.EXE -l -q 3 -p 3 -t 0 -h 127.127.127.127 c:\xln\tcp\net
NOTE: you should use your own assigned InterNet Protocol (IP) address
in place of the 127.127.127.127 shown above unless you don't
plan to use TCP/IP (more on this later... read below)
Step #5: Add the following command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file...
C:\OSUTILS\NETM.COM /PS=MYSERVER
Step #6: reboot...
APPENDUM: The LAN WORKPLACE FOR DOS v4.x supplies a TCP/IP implementation
for DOS including TELNET, FTP, RCP, RSH etc. The EXOS 205T
ethernet board is a high performance board *BUT* requires use
of the various drivers loaded during STEP #4 above. The problem
I had was that these drivers are (under msdos/drdos) normally
loaded via a TCP.BAT file during execution of AUTOEXEC.BAT.
However, with DRMDOS you HAVE to load IPX.COM via CCONFIG.SYS
and the IPX.COM you generate during the EXOS 205T SHGEN
*WILL NOT* load UNLESS those drivers are loaded first!!!!!!
Now... although the above 5 steps WILL initialize the EXOS 205T
card and via NETM give you multiple Netware session I still
have NOT been able to use the accompanying TCP/IP utilities
such as the TELNET, FTP etc. These all require the command
line loading of a driver called TELAPI then the execution of
the desired program... such as the VT220 Telnet software called
TNVT220.EXE.
I can load TELAPI ok but the minute I try to start up
the TNVT220.EXE program the system crashes.
The moral of this is that (so far) you CAN use the
EXOS 205T ethernet card for NETWARE sessions if you follow
the above installation steps BUT you cannot use the TCP/IP
software which comes with the LAN WORKPLACE FOR DOS v4.x
Good luck, and let me know if anyone else finds an answer to using the
TCP/IP software as I really would like to make use of it under DRMDOS.
Brian Mullan