It's 24 Jan 97  11:50:00,
We'll return to Will Honea and Tony Langdon's
discussion of Warp 3 and TCP/IP
 WH> Tony, you mentioned a couple of differences in NE2000 cards.  I
 WH> collected a handful a while back that give me a problem I can't figure
 WH> out - maybe you can steer me right.  These cards use a NSC DP83901
 WH> chip and work fine under DOS but they hang every system I've tried them
 WH> on when booting OS/2.  I doubt it's the sniffer since the hang occurs
 WH> before the little white box appears in the upper left.  Any pearls to
 WH> cast?  I'd hate to just pitch them if there is some secret to getting
 WH> booted.
I'm not familiar with these cards, especially since you mention shared
RAM below (most NE2000 clones I've seen don't used shared RAM).
 WH> One other clue: when I try to install PC Lan on the DOS boxes I have
 WH> to run the install program with the cards removed, then plug them in
 WH> when I re-boot.  I get a very predictable demand load error if they
 WH> are in the machine while the install program is testing the system,
 WH> even if I exclude the RAM area in the EMM386.sys config line.  Sounds
 WH> like a similar crash, but how do you beat it? I seem to remember a
 WH> discussion of this a while back, but can't rmemeber the details.
Start by checking the usuals, like IRQ's, I/O addresses, etc.  Also,
check that the shared RAM isn't conflicting with anything or being
trampled on by something else in the system. :-)
... As Popeye says, I yam what I yam...
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