rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) (03/21/90)
First, hats off to everyone involved in the development of packet drivers. What a nice thing. I currently have PC running Novell Netware and NCSA Telnet concurrently (no small feat). Has anyone gotten packet drivers to work on a Dell System 220 with VGA and a Western Digital WD8003E ethernet card. I have the exact same configuration running on Zeniths, IBM AT's, and Everex 286/20's without a hitch. The packet driver code was picked up from Clarkson University. The problem I am having is when I try to load the packet driver program it tells me that the suggested shared memory range is already in use. I am suggesting it use 0xD000. Thinking that the VGA hardware might be using that memory range I called Dell and they claim there shouldn't be any conflict. All the other parameters (IRQ-5, IO port address 0x300) are not conflicting with anything. The strange thing is that Netware worked on this machine in this configuration before. Any help/advise would eagerly accepted! -- Rick Odeen ...!rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen Nutrition Coordinating Center rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu University of Minnesota AT&T: +1 612 627 4884
meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) (03/21/90)
Sounds like a VGA conflict to me. Did you configure your WD8003E card some time ago? If so (and even if not), check to see what you have your Ethernet card set to. Then modify your wd8003e 0xn 0xnnn line accordingly. We ran into this problem with IBM PS/2s. Annoying, but solvable. good luck - /mde/
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/21/90)
In article <970@buddha.ncc.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes:
The problem I am having is when I try to load the packet driver
program it tells me that the suggested shared memory range is
already in use.
Sometimes the occupied memory test loses. Release 6.x of the packet drivers
should be more reliable, and if isn't working for you, you can switch it off.
Release 6.x of the packet drivers should be out by the end of March.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problemstimothym@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Timothy Margeson) (03/21/90)
Hi, About Ethernet and VGA and packet drivers... Some VGA cards, if configured to be 16 bit, can attach their BIOS to the address space between CFFF and DFFF. You may want to look there first on the DELL cpu. -- Tim Margeson (206)253-5240 PO Box 3500 d/s C1-022 @@ 'Who said that?' Vancouver, WA. 98668 e-mail replies to: timothym@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM