In article <1992Aug17.205932.20713@ncsu.edu> linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.183516.1274@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>>Speaking of bugs, here is a really bad one: I am experiencing an inconsistent
>>inability to run DOS sessions. I get sys0008, not enough memory. However, I
>>have 16 MB (Well, 20 but only 16 are recognized by OS/2 :-() and over 100 MB
>>free on the swapper partition, which always remains at 1048 Bytes!
>>
>>The support person said she thinks the problem is because I have COM2 and COM3,
>>but not COM1! I think to myself, so? What is the relation? Anyway, I am
>>beginning to wonder if I have some flakey cards, but OS/2 should really be
>>giving me a more appropriate error message, then. Has anyone else had this
>>problem with OS/2? I sometimes find myself unable to access my DOS programs,
>>since my disk is formatted HPFS! This is quite unacceptable. Any ideas?
>
>I had the same problem. I am using an ethernet card on IRQ3 (the default for
>COM2). I was unable to run DOS programs until I removed the DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS line from CONFIG.SYS. Now, I have no problems. Hope this helps!
Well, looks like this is the bug! I found the docs for my modem, and moved it
to com2, and put a serial port with 16550A on com1. Works for now. Note that
the mode command turns the 16550A on for com1, but if I put a mode command for
com2, the internal modem, the computer locks when I run a DOS communications
program! (So I don't do it! :-)
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