From: agonta 
Subject: Re: DOS connecting to a Novell server
Date: 2000/08/05
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Chris,

The NET.CFG file has one error, and that is, the
statement reads, EL90X.DOS, and instead, should 
simply read EL90X. Thus, this statement is being ignored.

Please remember that any NIC card driver that ends in
".DOS" is not a driver for DOS for NOvell, but rather
it's a NDIS 3.0 driver, not an ODI driver. In other words,
Novell's drivers end in "*.COM" and Microsoft's end
in "*.DOS" 

Thus, a typical installation would be like this:

contents of STARTNET.BAT:

c:\nwclient\lsl.com
c:\nwclient\el90x.com
c:\nwclient\ipxodi.com
c:\nwclient\vlm /mx
f:
cx 
(change to your desired context)
login servername/volume name


Your NET.CFG file likewise will be in c:\nwclient as a typical
directory. Press F8 when you boot up your machine. If
startnet.BAT will usually be invoked from AUTOEXEC.BAT
Thus, you'll be able to see each driver load one a time,
and learn the location of the drivers and which drivers
are or are not loading.

                     Good luck.



                               Alex
Chris Wells wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble, maybe someone can help me.....
> 
> We have a Novell server here at work and all the stations that connect to it
> use DOS. When I started using computers, it was when win3.1 was out and
> win95 just became available so I dont know too much about DOS.....
> 
> When trying to connect, i get the message saying "Network adapter not found
> or not responding. Try using SLOT_ENABLE driver keyword in the NET.CFG."
> 
> Here is my net.cfg file:
> 
> LINK DRIVER EL90X.DOS
> 
>     FRAME ETHERNET_802.3    ;Common protocol all players use
>     INT 10                  ;Card Interrupt
>     PORT 8400               ;Card IO Address
> 
> I dunno, I've been trying different things all week. Can anyone help?
> Thanks!!
> 
> Chris