rhodes@rogue.llnl.gov (Rhodes, Mark) (12/04/90)
Is there a "packet driver" that works with a DEC DEPCA card so that I can run QVTNET.
rhodes@rogue.llnl.gov (Rhodes, Mark) (12/06/90)
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?
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 -- ============================================================================= Email: Internet: rcstack@urc.tue.nl Bitnet: rcstack1@heitue5 Computer Association STACK, Computing Centre RC 1.58, Eindhoven University of Technology, POBox 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Holland.
zlcbeowen@qut.edu.au (Chris Owen) (12/08/90)
Mark Rhodes (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? DLL is _not_ a packet driver as per FTP's specifications, it is a proprietary interface to their cards which does much the same thing. It is not interface compatible, therefore can't be used. Last I heard, the DEPCA packet driver was on the list of things to do for the next Clarkson packet driver release. There was a posting in comp.dcom.lans recently by Russ Nelson to this effect. Chris Owen | c_owen@qut.edu.au Computer Based Education | voice +61 7 223 2912 Queensland University of Technology | FAX +61 7 229 0874 Brisbane, Australia
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? -- --- Bill Nickless nickless@peter.cs.andrews.edu or nickless@flash.ras.anl.gov