From: slz8l@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: 3c503 not recognized in PROTOCOL.INI - help pls!
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:00:06 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Oct15.040943.12151@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford) writes:
> I had a working TCP/IP plus Novell Netware system going with an NE2000
> clone NIC. This NIC occasionally hung the machine so I traded up to a
> genuine 3COM Etherlink II (3c503-16-TP). Unfortunately I cant use 
> use 3c503 in PROTOCOL.INI because protman doesnt like a keyword argument
> to start with a numeric character. It seems I need to use 3c503 in
> NET.CFG and using ELNKII in PROTOCOL.INI doesnt work. I get a error
> "PRO0025: An error occurred when the program tried to bind [*16*]
> ELNKII_NIF to ELNKII_NIF." when LANMSGEX.EXE is RUN by CONFIG.SYS. 
> ([*16*] = 16 high order ASCII chars showing as graphic symbols).
> The NIC works fine for Novell networking so I seem to have everything
> set up OK in NET.CFG but I cant get any TCP/IP functions to work until
> I can solve this one.
> 
> 	I am attaching what I assume to be potentially relevant parts of
> CONFIG.SYS and the whole of NET.CFG and PROTOCOL.INI. I have applied the
> recent TCP/IP CSD and the Novell CSD - these made it possible to get 
> TCP/IP to work with my original NE2000 NIC.
> 
> Someone must have found this problem before! Any suggestions will be 
> warmly welcomed.
> 
> BTW The absence of any helpful advice on the content of PROTOCOL.INI
> should be noted by the so called documentation teams for NOVELL, IBM
> and 3COM!
> 
> ---- CONFIG.SYS  --------
> LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL;C:\NETWARE;D:\TCPIP\DLL;C:\IBMCOM\DLL;
> SET DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;C:\OS2\REMOTE;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\NETWARE;P:\OS2;C:\;O:\;L:\OS2;C:\IBMCOM;
> SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;D:\TCPIP\BIN;C:\UTIL;C:\OS2\REMOTE;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;L:\OS2;O:\;C:\NETWARE;C:\;P:\OS2;C:\IBMCOM;
> .
> .
> .
> DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
> DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM 
> .
> .
> .
> REM --- NetWare Requester statements BEGIN ---
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
> RUN=C:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\3C503.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
> IFS=C:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
> RUN=C:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\NETBIOS.SYS
> RUN=C:\NETWARE\NBDAEMON.EXE
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
> REM --- NetWare Requester statements END ---
> SET ETC=D:\TCPIP\ETC
> SET TMP=D:\TCPIP\TMP
> RUN=D:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
> RUN=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
> RUN=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE
> 
> 
> --------- NET.CFG --------
> protocol IPX
>    bind 3C503
> 
> protocol ODINSUP
>    bind 3C503
> 
> link driver 3C503
>    Frame ETHERNET_802.3
>    Frame ETHERNET_802.2
>    Frame ETHERNET_II
>    Frame ETHERNET_SNAP
>    int 5
>    port 300
> 
> netware requester
>    preferred mednov1
> 
> link support
>    buffers 20 1514
> 
> -------- PROTOCOL.INI -----
> [PROT_MAN]
>  DriverName = PROTMAN$
> 
> [IBMLXCFG]
>  ELNKII_nif = ELNKII.nif
>  TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif
> 
> ;*----------------------------------------------*
> ;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
> ;*----------------------------------------------*
> 
> [TCPIP_nif]
>  DriverName = TCPIP$
>  Bindings = ELNKII_nif

> 
> 
> ;*----------------------------------------------*
> ;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
> ;*----------------------------------------------*
> 
> 
> [ELNKII_nif]
>  DriverName = ELNKII$
>  interrupt = 5
>  ioaddress = 0x300
>  transceiver = "ONBOARD"
>  maxtransmits = 8
>  xmitbufs = 2
> 
> -- 
> 
> Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
> University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
> INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz

Try the following method in your PROTOCOL.INI.

ELNKII_nif = X3c503

Bindings = X3C503

,
 
Pan, 
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA. 
                                                  
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