From: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: packet driver bombs windows 3.1
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:45:28 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep03.012143.37954@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>In article <2SEP199209034434@zeus.tamu.edu> sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>>Hi,
>>   I'm trying to use NCSA telnet and QVTnet on my system.  The problem is
>>that if the packet driver is installed, windows locks up on the logo screen.
>>Since QVTnet is a windows program, this is somewhat inconvenient.  I've
>>tried two different drivers with the same results, and the problem also
>>seems to occur for Win 3.0. I'm using the 8003 packet driver, int 0x0A,
>>mem base address 0xb000, int vector 0x300.  Any help would be appreciated!
>
>Well, I asked a similar question recently, and here are the best bits
>from the two answers I got:
>
>Answer 1.
>
>It is possible yes, but you have to use the pktmux packet multiplexor. It's
>available from sunee.waterloo.edu, under pub/wattcp/pktmux11.exe as a self
>extracting archive.
>--
>Ayman I. Kayssi                               |    ayman@eecs.umich.edu
>
>Answer 2.
>
>According to the latest version of the release notes that I have, there is a
>PC-NFS _version_ of WinQVT/Net. I had thought this capability was going to be
>included in the standard version, but that is not the case. Apparently, you
>have to order this version from QPC, as it is not available as shareware. The
>manual says to send $40 (the normal registration fee) for a copy of it; I
>don't know if you can "trade" your registration of the non-PC-NFS version
>for that (since registration of that is also $40). Not being a PC-NFS user,
>I have not had the need to investigate this further. Hope this helps...
>

I'm sure Thomas was trying to be helpful but these two answers are not
at all related to the problem sam4628 was having.  He didn't say anything
about running PC-NFS and these suggestions would only be helpful if he
was trying to run PC-NFS in addition to another program that uses the
packet driver, like WinQVT/Net or NCSA telnet.

I think you should first check if you have the line:

EMMExclude=b000-bxxx where bxxx is the last memory location used by your
network card

in you SYSTEM.INI file.

Another thing you could is using the program WINPKT.COM in addition to
your normal packet driver.  This program makes sure the program that is
supposed to receive the packet is in memory before it calls it's packet
receiving subroutine.  WINPKT.COM is generally available on the same
machines as the packet drivers.

Chuck

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