ccoombs@pilot.njin.net (Cliff Coombs) (09/20/90)
I'm installing a Netware (2.15) server on Token Ring. I have installed a few before on Ethernet. The server is a PS/2 model 80 with 2 meg o' RAM. After completing NETGEN, I boot the server and get: Error Initializing LAN Driver: Error initializing IBM Token Ring Board The server will be shut down. I'm using the drivers supplied with Netware version 2something. Any Ideas? I tried the whole NETGEN process a couple times... Am I forgetting something? What's different about token Ring or the model 80? Should I use different drivers? Maybe settings on the Token Ring card? Thanks in advance, Cliff -- Cliff Coombs Voice (201) 527-2729 Fax (201) 355-5143 Campus Network Administrator ccoombs@pilot.njin.net Kean College of New Jersey ccoombs@bart.kean.edu Disclaimer: "I know noth-ing" -Schultz (Hogan's Heros) ccoombs@NJIN.BITNET
sylvia@brahms.udel.edu (Sylvia M Berta) (09/22/90)
I am also having problems with a first-time token ring installation of ELS Level II. We did get some new files and driver from NetWire, which included a VAP for Source Routing. With the initial network and shell generation, the network came up fine, but the workstation would hang at the shell call (NET3). Running COMCHECK I could not even see the station at which I was sitting. With the new files, and the fresh generation of IPX as well as the network, I can now see all stations on the network (including the server, if I boot it from DOS), so I know that my cabling and MAU are okay (I presume)...but I still get a hung machine when NET3 is called. The server comes up fine and the VAP loads successfully. The work station calls are IPX, then ROUTE, then NET3...nothing fancy. The driver assignment is LAN_DRV_050. I have changed the FILEINFO.DAT file on the GENDATA diskette to call for the loading of the ROUTE.VP0 and SRCONFIG.COM files, etc. I am at my wit's end after 4 hours yesterday, and several more today. This should have been a simple install. Any help would be appreciated!!! I know now why we've always stayed with ethernet instead of token ring! By now, I would have had all the batch files written and the applications installed!! HELP!!! I'm sure that I'm probably missing something obvious, but today I'm blind. Thanks in advance ... Syl Berta
keith@ca.excelan.com (Keith Brown) (09/22/90)
Lateley, there appears to have been a run on problems concerning the use of the IBM PS/2 model 80 as a NetWare file server platform. So..... I grep'd around in our technical bulletins and found what follows. Hope it helps some of you..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NUMBER : P3TH062190U61 SUBJECT : PS/2 Machines With IBM SCSI and Token Ring DATE : 6/21/90 OS VERSION : REVISION : SHELL VERSION : GENERAL INFORMATION : Customers using IBM PS/2 Machines which have BOTH the IBM SCSI adapter and the IBM TOKEN RING card installed need to be aware of the following situation. The IBM SCSI adapter uses d800h for its Ram address. Most of the options for the Token Ring Card to be set up as PRIMARY also use Ram address of d800h. Option 8 (at CC00h) is the only Primary option that doesn't conflict with the IBM SCSI. Option 4 (at DC00h) is the only Alternate option that doesn't conflict with the IBM SCSI. The SCSI adapter was at its default aptions. (Check all that apply) (XX) This information was verified verbally. (XX) This information was verified in the lab. TECHNICAL BULLETIN Bulletin #1-263 Date: March 13, 1990 IBM 386 Memory Boards in NetWare 286 File Servers IBM 386 memory boards with IBM part number 34F2811 will function under NetWare in IBM 386 PS/2 machines. These memory boards place a device driver on track 0. Since this is the same area in which NetWare stores the cold boot loader, you must create a boot diskette to boot NetWare 286 (as explained below), rather than booting from the hard disk. (NetWare 386 is unaffected since it already requires a boot diskette and does not boot from the network disk drive.) To use the full functionality of the memory board, you must complete the following: 1) Install the memory board exactly as explained in the installation instructions that come with the board. 2) Place the memory board drivers and a CONFIG.SYS file on a bootable floppy diskette. Follow the instructions provided with the memory board for booting from a floppy diskette. 3) Place the file server operating system on the same bootable diskette. 4) Use the diskette as a NetWare boot diskette. Boot DOS; then issue the NET$OS command. No detailed memory test was performed beyond assuring that NetWare was able to see all installed memory. If you need more specific information, contact the hardware manufacturer. Note: A second IBM 386 PS/2 memory board (IBM part number 6450605) was tested; however, since this memory board does not require device drivers, it had no bearing on the NetWare 286 booting process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Brown Phone: (408) 473 8308 Novell San Jose Development Centre Fax: (408) 433 0775 San Jose, California 95131 Net: keith@novell.COM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------