Hi Don,
 DG> When installing it "locally" (to the same system that 
 DG> the CD's in), the installation aborts with error # 
 DG> 1604.
Hmmmm, according to my HELP, SYS1604 is "Infinite Retry has been set", which 
is not really an error as such, more that OS/2 will rety errors until 
something else gives up trying to do whatever it is doing (and failing). 
Unfortunately that is not much help...
 DG> I can't remember what each of the possible causes 
 DG> listed were (three or four of them), but two of them 
 DG> were an inability to access the CDROM across a network 
 DG> installation (not likely in my case ), and failure 
 DG> to find the network.
That sounds really strange. An install of OS/2 with networking will complete 
without any network actually being there at all. The only items install (with 
networking) MUST have is the Network card and its driver. I dont know why it 
is looking for the CD across the network though...
If it is fighting over the Network card and this is confusing the install, 
one thing you COULD try is to repeat the install for Networking using the 
Parallel Port Adapter rather than your specific card details. This way you 
still get all the setup options for the Network section of the install, but 
you eliminate your adapter specifc stuff. If this works, then it may help to 
point you in the right direction, and you can then change the Adapter to the 
NE2000 card at a later date. At least it might help point you to what is 
going on.
 PK> The supplied NETBIOS drivers for each environment should work fine,
 PK> once the CARD drivers are operating...
 DG> I'm going to pick up the NS2000.ZIP archive you 
 DG> mentioned, and see if that makes any difference.
I seem to recall you managed to get TCP/IP running ok, if so then you 
probably have a good CARD and NIC driver running, and NETBIOS should then 
just drop into place (he says hopefully.......;-)).
 DG> Acer's drivers for the card work fine under NT, but the WFWG 
 DG> machine required a generic NE2000 driver... I may have 
 DG> a similar situation under OS/2...
Ok, so it sounds like it IS an NE2000 type of card.
If the card came with an OS/2 driver then you are probably better off using 
that one. The generic NS2000 driver I mentioned will probably work also, but 
it may not be desirable to use it. The original NE2000 cards were pretty dumb 
and very hard to "autodetect" in S/W. In my case I had to tell my OS/2 
install to NOT try and autodetect the card. If I let Autodetect run, the 
machine just locked up as it tried (and failed with) the Autodetect function. 
You can prevent Autodetect from confusing things by using RESERVE.SYS. To get 
the 
install to complete and work successfully I also had to move the NIC address 
because the default address conflicted with my SCSI controller. Once I 
changed the card address, reset RESERVE.SYS to point to the card, then 
modified the NS2000.NIF file to point to the new address of the NIC, 
everything worked fine.......;-) 
I hope some of this helps..........pk.
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