info{at}intersagal.de wrote:
 
> 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)
 
> keyboard PS/2
 
> mouse PS/2 connected (IQ 12)
> physically COM1, COM2, LPT1 - all unused at the moment
 
> Most things seemed to go well:
> video card ATI RAGE PRO
> recognized, got IRQ 9 / 2
 
> Crystal Audio Controller CS423 6B-KQ (OPL-3, NOT WAVETABLE)
> (software on CD 2)
> recognized, got IRQ5
 
> ISDN-Card Teles SO/16.3, got IRQ 10
 
> network card 3 Com 3c905 100Base TX,
> recognized, got IRQ 11 (!!)
 
> USB-Bus
> got IRQ 11 (!!)

USB nearly always shares with something else.
 
> 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.
 
> TCP/IP and MPTN installed correctly.
> No networking possible - easy to understand because of IRQ 11 !
 
> 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.
 
> 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"
 
> (3) Furtheron I edited CONFIG.SYS
>     DEVICE=...\mouse.sys SERIAL=COM1
 
> On each booting I pressed   and further
 for new hardware
> recognition.
 
> All in vain - on booting the COM mouse is not found - the machine starts
> WITHOUT mouse support.
> (OF COURSE, I TESTED THIS MOUSE IN MY OLD OS/2 WARP MACHINE; OKAY!)
 
> Is there anything which I missed? - Anything more to be changed / edited
> (OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI, .... )?

I would try disabling the COM2 port in the BIOS. If that didn't work, I
would try switching PCI cards to different slots to change the IRQ
assignements.
-- 
"Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every
opportunity."                                        Colossians 4:5 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/



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