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- From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
- Subject: Re: NetWare Requester 2.0 error....
- In-Reply-To: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of 11 Dec 92 22:18:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <BUHR.92Dec16182454@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
- References: <Bz48nI.6u@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:24:54 GMT
- Lines: 80
-
- In article <Bz48nI.6u@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
-
- | I'm having trouble getting my OS/2 2.0 machine to work with my NetWare 3.11
- | network. On startup, everything seems to load normally, until a few
- | seconds after the desktop loads, when I get a blank screen with a
- | red box at the top with the message :
- |
- | NWD0115: Error getting connection ID (0x880F).
- | Press <Esc> to continue
- |
- | After I press <Esc>, I get the desktop back, with this most unhelpful
- | message:
- |
- | SYS0059: An unexpected network error occurred
- |
- | Doing a help on this message gets me another un-helpful message about
- | seeing my system administrator. Well, I'm the system administrator,
- | and I don't have a clue as to what this error is...
-
- I got this message when I forget to tell the "NE2000.OS2" MLID that
- "Frame Ethernet_802.3" was the first frame supported (and therefore
- the frame that "IPX.SYS" should bind to. "IPX.SYS" was binding to the
- "Ethernet_II" frame on the same physical board, and the Requestor
- exhibited exactly the behaviour you describe (right down to the
- "0x880f").
-
- DOS MLID's and Protocol drivers seem to make up their own rules, so a
- "NET.CFG" that works for a DOS session doesn't always work under OS/2.
- Moreover, all Netware's OS/2 drivers are incredibly buggy: sometimes
- an (incorrect) "NET.CFG" will successfully boot, but some totally
- unrelated change (like changing the "Slot" parameter, for example ;) )
- will cause it to fail afterwards.
-
- In short, try this (and I'm doing this from memory, so take it with a
- grain of salt):
-
- If your CONFIG.SYS looks like this...
-
- DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\3C503.OS2 (or whatever)
- DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
- .
- .
- .
-
- then make sure your C:\NET.CFG looks like this...
-
- Link Driver 3c503 (or whichever board you use under OS/2)
- Slot ??? (if your MLID is going to have trouble
- deciding which board is which)
- Frame Ethernet_802.3 (assuming your IPX is framed thusly)
- Frame Ethernet_II (or whatever)
- Protocol IPX 0 Ethernet_802.3 (just to make it explicit)
-
- Link Driver 3c509
- Slot ???
- Frame Ethernet_802.3 (or whatever)
- Protocol IPX 0 Ethernet_802.3
-
- | I have two ethernet adapters; a 3Com 3c509 (for DOS) and a 3c503 (8-bit)
- | for OS/2 and Linux. I use the NET.CFG to separate them, and, when I
- | had this same copy of OS/2 installed on my 386 (without the ServPak),
- | I had no problems.
-
- Hopefully, the OS/2 "IPX.SYS" will bind to the first virtual board it
- sees (the Ethernet_802.3 frame of the "3c503" MLID). In a DOS
- session, provided you load the "3c509" MLID only, the DOS "IPXODI.COM"
- will bind to the first virtual board of the first available MLID, i.e.
- the Ethernet_802.3 frame of the "3c509" MLID. If this is the desired
- behaviour, then you're in luck.
-
- If you find you simply can't reconcile the DOS and OS/2 "NET.CFG"'s,
- I've found that Netware DOS ODI drivers seem to look for the "NET.CFG"
- file in the current directory, so if you run them from "C:\DOSNW",
- they'll find a DOS-only "NET.CFG" in that directory.
-
- Anyway... Good luck!
-
- Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
-