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- From: lermer@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Noah Lermer)
- Subject: AutoCad and hardware locks
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.020458.22929@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:04:58 GMT
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- Hello everyone!
-
- I've been helping a friend install OS/2 on her machine today
- (noname '486 clone, 8 Mb, dual boot (FAT) IDE, Trident video running
- just the standard VGA drivers) with a fair bit of success but with one
- problem. She has AutoCad R10, an educational version, with a hardware
- lock (a dongle). AutoCad will start up (we've installed the new kernel
- from hobbes) but fails to recognise the dongle. It comes back with an
- autocad message saying that the hardware lock is not present or incorrectly
- installed. When booting from dos, autocad runs without trouble, so I figure
- the problem is OS/2 allowing access to the port (COM1). Toggling the
- DOS COM_HOLD parameter has no effect. Using full screen, windowed, boot from
- drive A: DOS all have no effect.
-
- There is no specific reference to COM1 in the config.sys file. The mouse
- is on COM2. Nothing else uses the COM1 port. COM3,4 are not used, so
- I don't think this is an interrupt sharing problem.
-
- Any suggestions?
- Thanks in advance people...
-
- Bruce Hollebone
- mail to hollebon@cemaid.chem.ubc.ca or lermer@theory.chem.ubc.ca
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