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- From: wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: SMC8013 vs Novell ODI & ODINSUP
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.014959.9436@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 01:49:59 GMT
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Originator: wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU
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- I am now successfully running the OS/2 2.0 Netware requestor
- and FTP Software's TCP/IP suite on an SMC8013 Ethernet board using the
- SMC NORB211.EXE (version 2.11 beta) ODI drivers, ODINSUP, and the FTP
- software. At the moment, everything works. I can run applications
- off of a Novell server in a DOS window that access files on the
- server. At the same time, I can have telnet sessions and be using tar
- to backup my drives. Getting everything to work was very time
- consuming, but it works now.
-
- I encountered the following problems:
-
- 1) The hardest part was getting the ODI drivers to work with the SMC
- card. Using int=2, port=280, mem=0xcc00, the NDIS drivers worked, it
- worked under DOS with packet drivers, Netware, and NCSA telnet, but it
- would not work with the OS2 netware requestor. I kept getting the
- message:
-
- NWD0115 Error getting connection ID 0x880F.
-
- Changing int=10, port=340, mem=0xcc00 solved the problem. The ODI drivers
- seem to be more sensitive to something? As soon as I changed the int/port,
- the Netware requestor started working.
-
- 2) Somehow, I managed to install the Netware requestor without getting
- NETX, which is required for DOS sessions. Found it on the requestor
- disk and copied it to D:\netware.
-
- 3) Unfortunately, although the requester was working, I could not get
- an F: drive under a DOS session. Stupid me, DOS_LAST_DRIVE = Z:. That
- took a while to find.
-
- 3) During the process of testing the configuration, I managed to
- crash OS/2 seriously (internal processing error at location ...
- contact your service representative). I was able to fix this by
- increasing the number of DOS_FILES to 255.
-
- 4) I was never able to get the device=dosvipx.sys and
- device=dosvshll.sys to work when installed in CONFIG.SYS of a bootable
- A: disk, as is described on p. 8-3 and 8-5 of the Novell Requestor
- Manual. They always caused the application to bomb when booted from
- the A: drive. I probably don't understand how they work, but I do not
- know how to make a virtual disk image application that can access the
- novell network. There are a lot of errors in the Novell manual.
-
- There it is. It can be done. It took me a very long time.
-
- Bill Pearson
-