[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] QVTNET and DEPCA card

rcstack@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Studenten Vereniging Stack) (12/07/90)

In article <87295@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> rhodes@rogue.llnl.gov writes:
>In a previous message I asked for info on a packet driver that works with
>the DEC DEPCA card. Since then, DEC Tech support told me that DLL is the
>packet driver. A memory map scan shows that DLL uses two vector hooks,
>6B and 6D. I tried both in the QVT RC file. Neither works and I get
>the "packet class error" that others posting here have seen. Does
>anyone have a clue?

The DLL driver gives you the same functionality as an extended, high
performance Packet Driver. However, it has a different calling convention.
To overcome this problem, I wrote a DLL to Packet Driver converter,
which allows you to use programs that call the Packet Driver over DLL,
the driver of DEC's PCSA.
 
The converter was written as part of a practical training job here at EUT
and is currently under beta test. It will probably be released into the
public domain by the end of this month, along with DLL support for KA9Q.

-Harry Stox
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nickless@andrews.edu (Bill Nickless) (12/11/90)

In article <269@rc6.urc.tue.nl> rcstack@urc.tue.nl writes:
>The DLL driver gives you the same functionality as an extended, high
>performance Packet Driver. However, it has a different calling convention.
>To overcome this problem, I wrote a DLL to Packet Driver converter,
>which allows you to use programs that call the Packet Driver over DLL,
>the driver of DEC's PCSA.

Has anyone done precisely the inverse of this--written so that a DEC 
program that calls DLL will operate with a packet-driven Ethernet card?
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