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
mandel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (03/22/90)
I have had the same problem getting the 1988-89 version of the packet driver to run on standard XT's. The older version (1988) seems to work ok though.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/22/90)
In article <13200004@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mandel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
I have had the same problem getting the 1988-89 version of the
packet driver to run on standard XT's. The older version (1988)
seems to work ok though.
Why have you not reported this bug to me before? Do you think I have ESP,
that I could find your bugs without even your telling me? The packet
drivers can only be as good as your bug reporting. I only have the hardware
for 25% of the drivers, so that means that 75% of the packet drivers
go limited testing before release.
Also, this is a useless bit of information, except as innuendo. Every
released packet driver has, by design, a unique version number.
Please tell me what the version numbers are for the drivers you are
using.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
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