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From: peterp@unipalm.co.uk (Peter Piggott)
Subject: Re: Etherlink II
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:10:19 GMT

keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:

>We're having troubles installing an 3Com Etherlink II board under PC/TCP.
>PC/TCP seems to be working fine, however, nothing goes out to the network
>or comes back in.  I believe the problem is due to the card defaulting
>the tranceiver to the internal tranceiver, but as we're using thick cable,
>it needs to be set to external.  We're using the 3com_mac.zoo NDIS drivers
>from hobbes, if that helps any.  How do I set the tranceiver to external?

>Thanks  much!

>John Keating, III

You can just add the parameter - Transeiver=external in to protocol.ini

e.g.

[ELNKII]
 Drivername = elnkii$
 interrupt = 5
 ioaddress = 0x300
 transeiver = external 

Thats all there is
Hope it helps

PeterP
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet
From: paula@alf.pec.co.nz (Paul Andrew)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:21:05 GMT
Organization: Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
Keywords: TELNETD

In article <1992Aug19.041326.17733@ans.net> db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:
>In article <13499@chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:

... slowness of OS/2 telnet daemon deleted ...
>
>>OK, so the impression I have got from the answers are that the telnet
>>daemon really can execute any (almost) text session.  So let me change
>>the question.  Would there be any interest in a solution that allows you
>>to execute any (almost) text _DOS_ application from the telnet daemon?
>I'd go for it.  I don't think it would be possible under 1.3 (when this
>stuff was initially designed), but if it could be pulled off under 2.0
>(especially if it supported interaction with the DOS sessions) I think it
>would be great.

Hasn't this already been done?  OS2YOU is an excellent program which
even allows password protection and multiple users.  You can run DOS
apps and switch between OS/2 windows.  Still can't see PM apps though.
Also I haven't been able to get the /pipe/ connect method to work over
the network properly.


Paul Andrew   PaulA@hal.pec.co.nz    Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
Ph. +64 652 8189     (hi mom!)       P.O. Box 308, Marton, New Zealand


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Novell Requester Problem
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:05:59 GMT

Hello,

I'm in the process of installing an OS/2 2.0 machine in our network.

One of our main applications is a German fulltext database. This system
synchronizes its data-access using a netware-system-call.

Running in a DOS-Session this fails. The failure differs between a private 
and a  global session, but it fails in both.
I had a call to the developers, and they told me the Netware Requester
would "eat" their "logical record locks" system calls.

They told me as a workaround to use the MS-Net mode :-)

Has anyone out there an Idea what happens there ? Is there a fix from Novell
available ? Can I solve that by proper configuration ?

(Sorry for the extensive crossposting, but I think know-how about OS/2 2.0
and Novell ist still rare these days...)

Thanks in advanve for any hint!

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: at018@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dale Houston)
Subject: X over SLIP
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:30:28 GMT


Has anyone tried running IBM's TCP/IP over slip? If so, how fast are you run-
ning it (baud rate?) Is it fast enough to run X? (don't laugh! I need to know!)

dale
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:08:33 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <GHENNIGA.92Aug17143059@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>>If I have understood some mail correctly, IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 (and FTP
>>softwares TCP/IP too) include a Telnet daemon?  But when once logged into
>>a Telnet session there isn't that much to do, because all programs you
>>execute must be writing/reading to/from stdin/stdout?  Is this correct?

>This is almost correct. You can run ANY OS/2 app, but if it's a PM (or
>WPS) program you won't be able to see the application so it's use running
>such programs is limited. You can only work with text mode programs. As for

Yes, I understand that you can't do PM programs with it.  But CAN you do
ANY text mode program, even if it does NOT use stdin/stdout, but rather use
the logical or physical display buffer?

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se
From: U37127@uicvm.uic.edu (Satish Movva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: SMC drivers for NW Requestor?
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:03:29 GMT
 <1992Aug11.220818.2468@actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

In article <1992Aug11.220818.2468@actrix.gen.nz>, conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad
Bullock) says:
>
>In article <Bstnu0.Mnw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman) writes:
>> Do they exist yet?
>
>The Netware Requester uses ODI drivers. OS/2 ODI drivers ship with the
>SMC cards. My Elite 16T had the driver in the OS2_ODI dir on the
>floppy.  It's dated October '91, so it's been around a while, but the
>revision history dates it well before that.
>
>I've used it with the NW Requester, under both 1.3 and 2.0

SMC tech Support (1-800-NET-LEAD) says that they have a beta available on
their BBS.  I dont recall the number of the BBS, but the file name was
NOVB200.EXE.

Satish Movva
Univ. Of Illinois at Chicago
From: andrest@wl.aecl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Run Pathworks AND Novel?
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:51:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: wl.17AUG92.13512936
Organization: AECL RESEARCH

On August 14, John wrote:

> Date:   14-AUG-1992 18:17
> From:   regy106@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John, Registry)
> Subj:   Run Pathworks AND Novel?
> 
> Hi,
>     I have ordered the novel requester for OS/2, and digital had said that
> pathworks for os/2 2.0 is out so I have ordered that as well.
>     Can I use both of these at once?  I want to access my novel server and
> the pathworks server at the same time.  Under windows you use co-exist.
> What I need under OS/2?  I do not have IBM's Lan Services for OS/2 2.0, do
> I need this to run any of these products?
> 
> Thanks for any replies, John

Last week I phoned DECDirect, and was told that the next version of
Pathworks for OS/2 would support 2.0, but that no release date had been
announced.  Has this new version in fact been released?

Terry Andres

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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Help Installing TCP/IP 1.2.1 with SMC EtherCard PLUS Elite 16
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:21:07 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1540@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>, lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes) writes:
> 
>   Has anyone been able to get IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 working with
>   SMC's EtherCard PLUS Elite 16?  What drivers do I use?  The
>   Western Digital drivers that come with the TCP/IP package
>   don't seem to work.  Has anyone been able to get these drivers
>   to work?  Are the NDIS drivers that come with the card the ones
>   I should be using?

It works fine for me.....

Just make sure you don't have conflicting interrupts (ie don't use the default
irq 3 that SMC seems to delight in doing).

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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: KA9Q Port to OS/2?
Date: 21 Aug 1992 19:12:33 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Aug21.074418.11504W@saruman.sssab.se> nicolai@sssab.se writes:
>I read some time ago in comp.os.os2.programmer or comp.os.os2.networking,
>that someone were doing a OS/2 port of KA9Q, does anyone know how this
>turned out, is it available by FTP or is the port not yet completed?
>I have considered doing such a port myself, but if someone already have 
>done, it seems quite useless do it again...

Walt Corey, KZ1F, is doing a port to OS/2 and PM. The current version of his
code is available for ftp from giskard.uthscsa.edu. This is still a work in
progress, with rough edges here and there, and in particular there's no
Ethernet (or anything but async serial, i.e. SLIP, PPP, and KISS) support yet,
though that's high on the priority list. You can email Walt at
kz1f@giskard.uthscsa.edu.
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From: isc30011@nusunix3.nus.sg (TENG WOO BOON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Networking
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:27:57 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

Hi........I would like to get some opinion from you.

    Will computer networks play a significant role in the next few
decades? What are some of the possible uses for computer networks in the
next few decades?

Thanks in advance. *8)
  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: DISKLESS WORKSTATIONS
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:24:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.112022.968@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
>Sorry I wasn't clear here. I just wanted to know how I can estimate the
>memory requirements for a minimal OS/2.

Ah, well, yes, placing CMD.EXE in the PROTSHELL line would, in fact,
result in a minimal OS/2 system.

>There are 2 possible uses.
>One is in a hospital environment where you have multiple beds 
>and you have both data acquisition front ends and a compute
>back end. The app is in real time expert system diagnosis.

Have you looked at IBM's medical expert system for OS/2, by the way?

>The other is as a Super Compute server for 3D visualisation problems.
>We're on a "cheap is good" kick here, so I'm investigating something
>like this. The idea here is to get cheap single board computers with
>network cards (in the case of the Super Server, we put them into one
>cabinet) and with a cheap but solid OS as a base.
>development on the OS/2 platform should be pretty easy too. The
>environment is familiar and there is (likely) to be a multitude of
>software (as well as supported hardware) available for this platform.

I can't really recommend a specific approach for a couple reasons.
One is that there's no clear standout winner right now, the other is
that there are so many options.

So I'll solicit opinions for you.  :-)

Does anyone have advice to offer on this subject?  Anyone with similar
setups?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: mwaldorf@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Waldorf)
Subject: Re: setclock/tar for TCP/IP 1.2.1 ?
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:08:20 GMT

David, thank you for the source code for setclock. Unfortunally I don't have
the necessary headerfiles to compile it. Could you post a compiled version ?
Thanks again.

Any suggestions about a tar for TCP/IP 1.2.1 working on a tape-drive connected  to a different computer in the network ?

The reason we switched from PC/TCP to TCP/IP was mainly IBM's X Server.

Matthias.
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Telnet
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:10:26 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

If I have understood some mail correctly, IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 (and FTP
softwares TCP/IP too) include a Telnet daemon?  But when once logged into
a Telnet session there isn't that much to do, because all programs you
execute must be writing/reading to/from stdin/stdout?  Is this correct?

In that case, would a solution there you can execute almost ANY text program
be of interest?  

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: IBM TCPIP
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:05:01 GMT

Great package - the TCPIP stuff from IBM - quite UNIX like networking.
Some Questions though ...

1) I start my X clients using rexec. The problem is that although I use
start rexec ... to start the X client, I always leave a cmd.exe session
in a window everytime I exit the client. Is there anyway I can avoid
having to clean up after everytime?

2) My talk doesn't seem to work. The talk daemon correctly receives the
talk connection request from the outside (an SGI machine) but I can't
establish the connection when I do the subsequent "talk user@host"

3) How cum my TCPIP works without portmap running? Is it necessary and
then for what?

4) I can't seem to install a default route (I have only 1 gateway). The
machine just refuses to route this way. I actually have to add each host
route individually.

5) The fonts option in "PMANT" seems to be corrupted. I get fonts listed
such as 0x0 1240x203, 0x4 and other ridiculous font sizes. what gives?

6) Most irritating fault. My normal usage for X is this :
-	I start xterm using "start rexec ..."
-	from xterm I launch X clients. eg "> xv * &" or "xclock &"
Every once in a while, either all my X clients feeze or the xterm
freezes (no keyboard input) or even the whole PM desktop (this is rare)
hangs. This happens most often when I close the X client window or
choose the quit option in the X client. So far I get by by killing the X
client from my xterm. This is not only inconvenient but also does not
totally elinimate either the Xserver or the PM desktop crash.

Am I doing something wrong or is the fault with the PMX itself?

7) X is a bit sluggish. Can I do anything to speed it up?

8) I'm not sure I understand the docs about color table in PMX. All I
know is that my gifs and jpg files in xv (using a 1024x768x256 driver)
look inferior to when I view them on the SUN (also a 256 color display).
How can I improve it?

Other than the above, its a great package - lots of programs with a
distinctly unix feel. For those who don't know, here's a short list
(from the top of my head)...
ftp and ftpd
tftp and tftpd
telnet telnetd vt100 vt220
bootp bootpd
route routed
rsh rshd
talk talkd
nfs nfsd
mail
snmp
netstat
nslookup
ping
finger fingerd
tracerte (ala UNIX traceroute) (with source code)
rn (with source code)
nstat (PM version of netstat with source code)
named (with source code)
ipgate (for simple packet filtering I think)

Some idea of performance ...
my old dos network stuff does ftp at an average rate of about 40KB/sec
the IBM ftp does about 250KB/sec.

Of course, I think the X performance is rather sluggish (though I have
no experience with other PC X servers). Also, I think it is a straight
port of the X code that does not take advantage of multi-threading under
OS/2 (the MIT X server only has one main thread serving a "dispatch
loop"). With multi-threading, performance would not only improve but
also reliability would go up (eg have one thread per X client). You can
take this as a humble (and unsolicited!!) suggestion IBM ;-)). 

jin meng
From: wmah@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Wayne Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 and bootp server code
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:53:52 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

I can't seem to get the bootp server in IBM's TCP/IP
version 1.2.1 to work on Token Ring.
 
I have started the bootp with the debug option and I can
see the bootp request being read by the bootp server code
, but it can't find the address (using LAA 400002002123)
in c:\etc\bootptab.  The address is listed in bootptab.
 
One other thing.  If ht is set to 1 (ethernet) the bootp
server code will crash and display an error message.  If
set to ieee802, it does not crash, but again it cannot
find the LAA in c:\etc\bootptab.
 
Any hints or suggestions are appreciated.

Wayne Mah              wmah@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: cmclark@dri.com (Chip Clark)
Subject: Re: Getting NE2000 packet driver to work in DOS session under OS/2...
Reply-To: cmclark@drivax.mry.novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:57:42 GMT

dan@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
]Is there any trick to getting the NE2000 packet driver working in a DOS session
]under OS/2? 

The newer Requestr version 2.0 from IBM installed using the drivers just fine.
You might check to see if running under OS/2 you are having an IRQ conflict.
I am set to use IRQ 2 and Address 300 - If you would like I can copy up
my Net.CFG and the requester info in config.sys.

Let me know.



Chip - 

cmclark@novell.com
Novell Desktop System Group
Technical Support
These are my opinons and only my opinions, unless you share them as well, 
which would make them our opinions, but I am not of the opinion that I can 
express your opinion as my opinion without your prior expression of said
opinion, and then my reutterance of that opinion would, in my opinion, be 
foolish unless I were expressing agreement to your opinion, and then it 
wouldn't be my opinion but your opinion to which I only agree.

PS the best way to get DR DOS support is by mailing to drdos@novell.com.
Please include a serial number.
From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: SMC drivers for NW Requestor?/FTP Corp TCP\IP ** Solution **
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:24:52 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <kwhelan.21@neptune.uark.edu>, kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
> In article <BsvMso.976@news.cso.uiuc.edu> freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman) writes:
> 
>>U37127@uicvm.uic.edu (Satish Movva) writes:
>>: In article <1992Aug11.220818.2468@actrix.gen.nz>, conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad
>>: Bullock) says:
>>: >
>>: >In article <Bstnu0.Mnw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman) writes:
>>: >> Do they exist yet?
>>: >
>>: >The Netware Requester uses ODI drivers. OS/2 ODI drivers ship with the
>>: >SMC cards. My Elite 16T had the driver in the OS2_ODI dir on the
>>: >floppy.  It's dated October '91, so it's been around a while, but the
>>: >revision history dates it well before that.
>>: >
>>: >I've used it with the NW Requester, under both 1.3 and 2.0
>>: 
>>: SMC tech Support (1-800-NET-LEAD) says that they have a beta available on
>>: their BBS.  I dont recall the number of the BBS, but the file name was
>>: NOVB200.EXE.
> 
>>I have the requester working using the ODI driver on the supplied disk, but
>>now I'm trying to get it to coexist with IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 (I know, I want it
>>all :). Every goes smoothly until ODINSUP tries to load, I get an error
>>MLI0211, for which I can find no help message. The text displayed on the
>>screen says "not enough frames supported". I have 802.2, ii, and snap defined
>>ine NET.CFG, so what is this referring to?  I'll be happy to exchange 
>>config.sys, protocol.ini, and net.cfg files with anyone who can help.
> 
>>Thanks, Jay
> 
> That is because the old driver doesn't support multiple layers where the new 
> driver does.
>

OK> Now for the question that we are all waiting for. Where can we ftp the new
driver from that does support > 1 frame type, so that I can remove the 2nd card
from my machine?
 
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|  University of Waikato,                                                    |
|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    |
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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: EPM
Date: 19 Aug 1992 02:56:55 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Aug18.233107.42562@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
>*  I hope everyone knows that you can edit VM and MVS host files with
>   EPM and Communications Manager - just enter in the initial Open or
>   Add File dialog HA:PROFILE EXEC A or HB:'project.group.type(member)'

No, I didn't, actually...Will this work over a 3270-type session? DFT or CUT?
What hardware is needed? (Maybe I should just read the announcement letter?)

If I ever get a 386 at work, I may well have to go buy the Communications
Manager...
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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: How to redirect printer to lpr?
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:08:29 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: comp
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link

Is there a way to cause the printer object to send its output to a
command-line utility such as FTP's lpr program?  I want to redirect the
output to a network printer.

Is it necessary to write a small device driver to accomplish this, and,
if so, which manuals would tell me how to do this?  (I have a devkit.)