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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Novell Netware OS/2 requester incompatible with r 1.3
Message-ID: <6084@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 01:56:28 GMT
References: <3862.27e64542@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <3862.27e64542@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
| Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom regarding using the new OS/2 rev 1.3
| with Advanced Netware 286 v2.15c ?  We have a working system based on rev 1.2
| currently, but, hoping to improve performance, I thought that I would look into
| upgrading to the "new, lean" OS/2 rev. 1.3 . I was encouraged by all of the 
| testimonials saying that everything that worked under OS/2 rev 1.2 worked 
| under OS/2 rev 1.3 .  WRONG!  It seems that Netware checks for rev. numbers 
| and the IPX and IFS drivers now complain about "incorrect OS/2 version".

	I patched out the version check in IPX and the IFS to get it
to work under 1.21 and everything was fine.  Shortly I will install 1.3
on that machine so I should know then if it works also; remind me in
a few days and I will post.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*