From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Netware Requester fully functional?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:18:12 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

jsvec@umaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Joe Svec) writes:

> We have been waiting for MONTHS to have OS/2 2.0 installed on our machines
> because our network folks claim that the Netware Requester for OS/2 2.0
> is not available yet and/or that it is not fully functional and/or that
> it is too buggy to "waste" time with.
> 
> I read somewhere that the OS/2 2.0 NW Requester was released on July 1!
> I need to verify the the OS/2 version 2.0 Netware Requester is available
> and is generally thought of as being "ready" (if this is indeed the case).
> 
> The other reason that they tell me that we'll have to wait at least 6 months
> before we can have our OS/2 2.0 is that drivers supposedly do not exist for
> the network cards that we have (Cabletron E2010's and E2110's).  IS THIS
> CORRECT???  
> 
> I would also like info on using IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 package with the setup
> listed below.  If anyone can verify that the OS/2 workstations described
> below will INDEED continue to work wonderfully if we upgrade from OS/2 1.3
> to OS/2 2.0 (and NW Requester), please let me know! 
> 
> Setup:
> 
>    OS/2 Workstations:
>       
>       *   386-25 DX machines with 16MB RAM
>       *   330MB SCSI hard drive with WD FAASST SCSI 7000 controller
>       *   Cabletron E2010 or E2110 Network Interface Card
>       *   OS/2 version 1.3
>       *   Novell NW Requester for OS/2 version 1.3	
> 
>    DOS "ODI" Workstations:
> 
>       *   386-25 DX machines with 2MB RAM
>       *   40MB H.D.
>       *   Cabletron E2010 or E2210 N.I.C. 
>       *   LSL, IPXODI, CSIODI.EXE, Lan WorkPlace (Telnet, FTP) 
> 
>    Servers:
> 	
>       *   486-33 DX machines with ??MB RAM
>       *   660MB hard drive, 100MB hard drive
>       *   Novell Netware 3.11
>       *   etc...
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Joe Svec
> Research Analyst
> American College Testing 
> Iowa City, IA  52245
> (svec@act-act6-po.act.org)

 
The OS/2 netware requestor is available.  Call 1-800-UPDATE1 for it.  I 
ordered it and received it after a 2-week wait (while it moved between 
two companies for billing purposes).  It is _not_ buggy, in fact, I've 
not had any problem with operating Fresh Technology's MODEM ASSIST 
program in a VDM, either global or private.  Notework mail also works, 
but only in a private VDM.
 
The global VDM uses global settings, and is slightly off kilter with the 
"total compatibility" issue.  A private VDM is entirely, 100% compatible. 
Even the messages which are sent to a private vdm appear as a standared 
Novell line (requiring ctrl-enter), whereas a global clears the screen 
and puts the message in a neat blue box (which can be timed for removal, 
disabled, or require <Escape> by supplying DDAEMON with a parameter.).
 
As to your network interface, I use a Everex Speedlink PC/16, which is 
not supported directly by the OS/2 requestor.  Instead, I was forced to 
download this driver from their support BBS and it works just fine.  
Incidentally, I used this driver under 1.3, and it fortunately worked 
with 2.0 without a glitch.  It is my feeling that any network drivers 
used under 1.3 will work under 2.0.
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
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