info{at}intersagal.de wrote:
> Hello All, 
> 
> I'm a proud OS/2 user since OS/2 2.1. 
> Shortly I installed my eComStation 1.1 (German vesion, bought from
> MENSYS NL). 
> 
> Hardware 
> DELL Optiplex GXa (old machine) INTEL P2 233 
> PHOENIX ROM BIOS Plus Vers. 1.10 A05 (from 1998) 
>   
> HHD IBM-DHEA-36481 (6.2GB) 
>  - pre-partitioned and formatted HPFS: physic. C: - logic. D: E: F: (by
> Partition Magic) - no problem  
>   
> keyboard PS/2 
>  
> mouse PS/2 connected (IQ 12) 
> physically COM1, COM2, LPT1 - all unused at the moment

ok.

> Most things seemed to go well: 
> video card ATI RAGE PRO 
> recognized, got IRQ 9 / 2 

ok.

> Crystal Audio Controller CS423 6B-KQ (OPL-3, NOT WAVETABLE) 
> (software on CD 2) 
> recognized, got IRQ5 

ok.

> ISDN-Card Teles SO/16.3, got IRQ 10

Remove this beast for first try!

The teles so/16/3 is known to be problematic to get workking AND to 
been blocking something unwanted when not setup right!

At least to get that beast working you needs:
1. setup the IRQ it should use in BIOS to ISA only.
2. use the DOS setup program to assign the right IRQ.
    It can use only 3 or 4 IRQs at all! So find one that
    does NOT conflict with anything else is not easy.
    On my mashine I've setup this beast to use IRQ11
    as it would disturb something on IRQ 10, 9, and 5
    but runs on IRQ 11 after changing capi.ini to IRQ11.
    REM out VCAPI.SYS because it is buggy and disturbs anything.
    Sou you can only use OS/2 to communicate with others.

> network card 3 Com 3c905 100Base TX, 
> recognized, got IRQ 11 (!!) 

Bites with the teles. Use IRQ 10 instead.
Use NICPAK to find the correct driver for it!

> USB-Bus 
> got IRQ 11 (!!) 

Not possible when the teles sits there. It should share IRQ10 or 
another flawless.

> On booting the network card is recognized and info to bee seen on the
> screen. 
> BUT: Booting further on gives ONE "beep" (on installing the USB-Bus
> drivers?) 


> USB-Stick properly found as removable device, working correctly. 
> 
> RMVIEW.EXE does only find the USB on IRQ 11.  

The driver will assign another IRQ flawless when the teles gets 
assigned to IRQ11.

> TCP/IP and MPTN installed correctly. 
> No networking possible - easy to understand because of IRQ 11 ! 

No. It conflicts with the teles! as the default assignment will set it 
to IRQ10.

> So I decided: by using a COM mouse on COM1, to give free access to IRQ
> 12, hoping that either network card OR USB would use this IRQ 12, now
> free. 

Makes no difference because eCS will use IRQ12 for the mouse anyway. 
Does not matter if the mouse is serial or PS2. You may change the 
mouse flawless between 2 boots without changing anything in config.sys.

> Step by step: 
> 
> (1) According to the instructions in BIOS, I set MOUSE = OFF, to make
> IRQ 12 free from PS/2. 
> (2) Additionally I tried BIOS Serial Port "AUTO" changed to
"COM1" 

No. Let mouse = ON. Be sure that the teles is setup right! This is why 
I have sayed to left off anything related to the teles until anything 
else works well.

> (3) Furtheron I edited CONFIG.SYS 
>     DEVICE=...\mouse.sys SERIAL=COM1 

No need for. remove SERIAL=COM1. The mouse driver will find the mouse 
either on serial or PS2 magically when anything is setup well.

> On each booting I pressed   and further
 for new hardware
> recognition. 

No need.

But you may use Alt+F5 to go through the loading of the drivers step 
by step. The loader will ask you then for each driver for install. 
Answer 'j' until you knows which driver hungs, then you can say 'n' in 
the next try for that to see if this helps.

> I own one license of Deskman/2 Vers. 2.0 - but did not yet install it on
> this machine, because I don't know if this old software will manage eCom
> Station 1.1 properly. 

It will - but until your hardware is served correctly it would not 
help. It would make no sense to use it to rebuild the old desktop 
because there are too many changes between WARP 4 desktop and eCS.
You may use it to save your eCS desktop and recreate it in a new 
install from the archive with it.



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