Greetings All
  I know this isn't quite specific to hardware other than it is an
extension of my attempt to get OS/2 installed on an AMD 64 machine 
but I am really getting desperate for help since what is happening on a
number of fronts just doesn't seem to make sense.  I will do my 
very best to keep it short and to-the-point so as not to be confusing. 
Please bear with me.

My first problem I have already mentioned, that of intermittent internet
connection, but I thought I might make the situation clearer 
to make help easier too.  Upon first booting up my internet connection
works immediately.  Some time afterward, a duration for 
which I cannot determine, suddenly with no error messages or hint of any
kind the connection is just down.  If I run "ifconfig lan0" it 
still shows proper static IP, Netmask, and Broadcast addys.  However at
this point I can't even ping the router which is also the DNS 
on a lan connected cable router, let alone resolve any named addys.  I have
tried "net start", "net start server",
"\tcpip\dos\etc\resolv" 
and various operations of "route" and cannot bring it back up. 
Rebooting results in immediate resumption of network services, for 
awhile again.  I know I am probably forgetting some command that would
bring it back up and although that would be helpful 
enough I certainly would like the problem to be solved so it simply doesn't
happen anymore.  Any ideas at all for how I could suss 
this out let alone solve it would be most happily received.

  The second problem has to do with installing fixpack 3 (this is WSeB). 
From the OS2Site>Upgrade>Wseb>Zip directory I 
downloaded every file there.  The instructions on that page entitled
"install.txt" claims that once should be able to create a
directory 
called "fix" on essentially any drive visible to OS/2.  To make
it simple I did so on the root, os2 bootable drive.  It says to copy all
the 
zip files except the one that ends in "c" to that directory. 
Then one is supposed to make a subdirectory entitled "os2serv"
and copy 
the "w*c.zip" file(s) there.  It talks as if there are more than
one but in this case there is just one.  Then with considerable warning 
about newer zip utilities as to their propensity to not create
subdirectories it says unzip them all in their respective places.  
Apparently I did that correctly since there are now subdirectories under
both "fix" and "os2serv". Finally it says to "cd
to foo:\fix" 
and enter the command "os2serv".  When I do this a little gui
pops up briefly, complains of finding no subs to os2serv and 
disappears.   Anybody else used this method of installing fixpaks?  that
could possibly help?  I'm afraid to do an online install since I 
can't trust my connection.  So you see in a roundabout way the problems are related.

  Any help whatsoever will be helpful to me since I have run out of ideas
for the time being.  Maybe I'll get some more after a decent 
night sleep because I am working severely overtime trying to get this all
working together.  Sort of arduous fun, but the fun dries up 
when following instructions (or logic) seems to fail.
Thanks
Jimmy





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