On 29 Dec 96 06:04pm, Will Honea wrote to Steve Gabrilowitz:
SG> I had the same problem, but in my case at least the problem wasn't
SG> skipping a  step but rather one of not properly asking the questions
SG>  when making the diskettes (entered the IRQ for the network  card on
SG> the server instead of the one in the machine I was  installing on,
SG> pretty silly eh? ;-)  When I changed the  network card config on the
SG> diskettes it worked flawlessly...
 WH> 'taint one thing, 'tis another!  Got that part solved - finally
 WH> - by changing from Netbios over TCP/IP to straight Netbios
 WH> protocol (don't really understand why it caused the error it
 WH> did, tho) and on to the next problem.  I inherited several
 WH> ne2000 clones - COMPEX brand, NSC chip set, etc - that work
 WH> fine under DOS but hang the machine solid booting OS/2.  I
 WH> don't even get to the white square in the upper left point with
 WH> these in the system.  I understand about killing the sniffer
 WH> and so forth, but I don't even get far enough for this to work.
 WH> Do you remember any of the discussion that went on here a year
 WH> or so back about boot hangs with ne2000 cards?  I can't dredge
 WH> up anything but I thought there were some work-arounds.  Cards
 WH> were free (now I know why) and I'm just messing around with
 WH> some multiple station lash-ups, but I would sure rather get
 WH> these working than shell out even the small amount to by any
 WH> more cards!
Stay away from I/O addresses ranging from 320h through 360h.  NE2000's
use a 20h block of memory for I/O whereas most other Ethernet NIC's only
use a 10h block.
Some of the problems associated with those addresses is lockups running
Selective Install and lockups during boot.
320h is primarily associated with Selective Install hangs.  360h can
interfere with the floppy drivers, 340h causes problems with other
adapters in the 330h to 350h range (usually SCSI and MPU-401 support).
I've found that an I/O of 280h is usually clear of everything.  Try that
and see if it helps.  I also have my card using IRQ 11 (some sound cards
use 10, 12 is usually reserved to bus mice, 13 is obviously unavailable,
14 & 15 reserved - usually - for IDE devices).
Give that a shot and see if it help you.  It worked for me.
BTW, these tips were passed along to me via IBM tech support.
George
... Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.
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