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From: greg@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Greg Dolkas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: NCSA Hangs under DESQview; Help?
Message-ID: <2230117@hprnd.rose.hp.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 19:53:54 GMT
Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division
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I've been having a problem with NCSA Telnet running under DESQview.  The
program hangs periodically and has to be aborted and restarted.  After a little
poking around, it appears that the LAN driver (3C501) is stuck in a loop
waiting for EXBUSY to go to zero (look at label NOTDONEX in NET501.ASM).

I've tried telling DESQview not to allow anything else to share the CPU, but
that didn't cure it.  I've tried versions 2.1, 2.2, and 2.2D.  Also three
different PC's (HP Vectra, ES/12, and RS/25C), and two different 501 LAN cards.

Our LAN is busy, but I wouldn't consider it overloaded.

Is this a known problem with the 3C501 card (not reporting "done")?  Is there
a newer driver available with a poll time-out?

Thanks for any help you can offer.  For reference, right now things have been
particularly bad.  It hung 4 times while just typing this in!

Greg.