Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!meyer From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: TCP/IP, PC LAN, and token ring Message-ID: <1991Feb7.175009.963@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 17:50:09 GMT References: <1991Feb5.182711.18532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3206@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Feb6.161521.25372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3220@ux.acs.umn.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 36 spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes: >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.) >> >Could it possibly be some other device driver that you have loaded? No, the situation exists independant of any other drivers in the system. >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. Thanks for the hint - I hadn't messed around with the defaults. Removing the ST=12 parameter from the DXMT0MOD.SYS (Netbios module) allows the DLR to correctly load after the packet driver initialization. All is well now with the PS/2s. >-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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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