Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!spexet From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: TCP/IP, PC LAN, and token ring Message-ID: <3220@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 6 Feb 91 19:28:31 GMT References: <1991Feb5.182711.18532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3206@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Feb6.161521.25372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Lines: 46 In article <1991Feb6.161521.25372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes: > >We have PS/2 model 50s & 80s, and its the DLR that doesn't like the fact that >the packet driver opens the TR driver before it does. (What we get is a report >of a NETBIOS ERROR.) > Hmm. I wonder what is happening. Could it possibly be some other device driver that you have loaded? The only device drivers that we use on our systems are QEMM, SMARTDRV, and the token-ring adapter drivers (otherwise known as the PC LAN Support Program, if you like to talk like IBM does.) One thing we did notice was that the system seemed to work the best when no extraneous options are used with the three adapter drivers. If no options are used with the three adapter drivers (that is, there are no options at the end of the "device=dxm...." lines in the config.sys file, then everything seems to work just fine. When our copy of the OS/2 TCP/IP suite arrives from IBM (we had a loaner copy, and had to return it. The copy that we are supposed to get is 4 to 6 weeks backordered, according to our IBM customer rep), I plan to reinstall the router daemon on our file server again, so that we can have TCP/IP client services again from our token ring network. If you'd like, I can e-mail copies of the config.sys, autoexec.bat and doslan.ini files, so that you can see how our systems are configured. Perhaps this will help in your problems. Also: I assume that you are using IBM Token Ring adapter boards. >The PCs we have, with Microsoft Mach20 accelerator boards, simply lock up on >packet driver initialization. I have no idea what may be causing this, other than the accelerator boards. > >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Don Meyer internet: dlmeyer@uiuc.edu >"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin 1759 -D. Robert Spexet II, Post Office Box 14909, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414-0909 Internet: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu BITNET: spexet@umnacux.BITNET UUCP: rutgers!umn-cs!ux.acs.umn.edu!spexet