Re: Adding network and internet to Warp 4

On 06/19/08 08:46 pm, Snydley wrote:
Hi Bill,

"William L. Hartzell"<wlhartzell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sir:

Snydley wrote:
Hi Bill,
Told you I'd probably be back. :-)
See the text below.

"William L. Hartzell"<wlhartzell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sir:

Snydley wrote:
I'm set up Warp 4 on an old Pentium 233Mhz MMX computer. During the
install it "found" my NIC card, and loaded the generic Realtek OS/2
driver for it that I have, but I can't figure out how to set it up to
get on the Internet.
You should note that there are more than one driver for RealTek NIC. I'd
suggest get the others and trying them in turn, until you get a good
setup(check the lantrans.log file in \IBMCOM folder for success). Try
Hobbes for these other drivers. BTW, use
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/misc/pci104vka.zip> to find out
which Realtek chip driver you need.

Also during the install it "found" my Sounblaster AWE32 PnP and loaded
it's drivers for it. That never worked right though.
Alas, the IBM compiled drivers have never worked right.
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/sound/soundblasterawe3264_latest.zip>

I finally got so frustrated
with it I fdisked the drive and started over. I ended up doing this
several times. During the last install the sound works,(except for some
"clicking",(think it's a DMA problem), but it didn't load my NIC card
and I can't figure out how to add it, LAN capabilities and TCP/IP. I
saw on one of the earlier installs there was a TCP/IP install program,
or configuration program, but this time it's missing. I found the area
where you can add programs and added "ALL" hoping it would show up, but
it didn't.
Can anyone give me a clue as to where to start to add Network and
Internet capabilities, and how to configure hardware settings,(like
Device Mangler) in Windows.
On another note, On this system I have removable hard drives that are
on "drawers" that I can change and run whatever software I want on it
without opening the machine and removing the hard drive.
On one of the hard drives I have Windows 98SE, and when I'm using that
hard drive on the system the Sounblaster and NIC card works perfectly,
I get sound with Windows and all of my apps. and can connect to 3 other
computers on the LAN and also surf the Net, so I know my hardware is
ok.
I appreciate any help you can give, with suggestions, websites etc.
Thanks,
Snyde
On Warp 4 CD Rom install disk, enter the install command to install
Networking applications after you get the right NIC driver. BTW you
need to get fixpack 15 for the base operating system
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/patches/fixpack/warp_4/fp15.zip>,
updated everything. Sad that Rick Oliver sites is gone as he had
pointers to all that you need to do. This site has drivers if you don't
find them on Hobbes<http://os2site.com/sw/>. Explorer it.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!
I downloaded the files from the links you gave me. The SoundBlaster one
works great! The sound is wonderful now. I tried one of the other drivers
from Hobbes that was supposedly for my D-link DFE-530TX+ NIC and when
the machine restarted after the change I saw a "FATAL No such card in
system" or something similar. So I edited Config.sys manually from a
command prompt using "e" and removed the reference to that driver. Is
there a way to do that with a program in OS/2, something like Device
Manager in Windows? I then fdisked the drive and reinstalled, because I
don't know how to add or remove a NIC card and drivers from OS/2. How do
you do that? This time when I reinstalled, and it prompted me to choose a
NIC card I selected "Other" and installed the original Realtek driver I
told you about. I checked the lantran.log file with "e" and this is what
it says:

IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [08/01/96] 5.05 is loaded and operational.
IBM OS/2 NETBEUI 5.00.0
NETBEUI: Using a 32-bit data segment.
Installing NETWKSTA.200 Version 5.0. IBM LAN Redirector (Aug 15, 1996)

IBM OS/2 NETBIOS 4.0
Adapter 0 has 105 NCBs, 154 sessions, and 14 names available to NETBIOS
applications.
NETBIOS 4.0 is loaded and operational.

Loading Realtek Fast Ethernet Network Adapter driver (3.23vk)
[2005-12-05]
Vendor=1186,1186 Dev.=1300,1301 Bus/Dev/Func-No= 0/10/0
EtherID=@00055DD05F50
The chip is RTL8139C.
Bad news: it sounds like you got a blue box RealTek NIC. Those don't
work. IF you got a black box Realtek NIC, then those would work. We
never found out what was done to change working chip into defective chip.
I've checked with Google -> groups and reviewed the history of that chip
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip/browse_thread/thread/340c3cf2ef3283d5/f4976fb1aebba0ff?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#f4976fb1aebba0ff>
if you want to read it.

I read through it, but how do you know if you have a blue box or black box?
As far as defective goes, it's not defective since it works fine with
Windows, maybe there's just not a good driver available for it? Geez, I
really didn't want to put much money into this, but I suppose if I can find
a different NIC for cheap that WILL work with it I'll buy it.
I figured the problem was that I just didn't have the network setup
correctly. The lantran.log file says " IBM LANVDD is loaded and operational"
so I figured the NIC was operational, it was just something in my network
configuation that I don't have set up correctly.

Network Line Speed is 100 Mbps / Full-Duplex Mode.
Link configuration: Auto Negotiation enabled.
Flow Control: Transmit:Disabled, Receive:Disabled.
Parameters: IOBase = 0x7C00
Interrupt Level = 3
IBM LANVDD is loaded and operational.
IBM OS/2 LAN Netbind

To me it looks like it's working ok, but I've never gotten that "deep"
into Networks,(Windows always handled that), so I'm not sure. The only
questionable thing I see is the flow control. Should that be enabled, or
is this the way it should be?
I've got everything working, that I can tell, except the Network and
Internet. I did have 2 errors in Config.sys a "com.sys" and a
"vcom.sys"not loading . I was wondering if maybe that was caused by me
selecting Fax service during the install, but not having a fax-modem, so
I manually rem'd those 2 lines out in config.sys and those errors went
away.
This computer is connected to 3 other computers on a network and the
Internet through a Netgear router. When I have the Windows'98SE hard
drive in the hard drive "drawer" I can connect to any of the 3 computers
and swap files and use a printer connected to one of them, and surf the
Net, so I'm sure my hardware's ok.
I think my whole problem now with the network is I just don't know how to
set it up. The only experience I've had with networks is with Windows and
it takes care of all of this for you, pretty much.
Is there anywhere on the Net where I can find a webpage with step by step
directions, or some kind of guide or something? This seems to be the last
problem I have with the setup, and I'd appreciate any help you might give
me.
Thanks,
Snyde
I'd suggest using Google groups and advance search on these many
comp.os.os2.* newsgroups for answers that were given in the past. There
have been several well written expositions on how to setup the networking,
including a few by myself. BTW, the com.sys error is because you assigned
the serial port to another device, like you surmised.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

At this point it's kind of pointless for me to try to configure my network
if I don't know if I have a NIC that will work with Warp4 or not. I've got
to figure that out 1st, and if this won't work with Warp, I'll have to get
one that will, or forgo the network altogether and just use the machine to
run my old software on and use Windows when I want to Network.
Thanks for your time and info.,
Snyde



Go here, http://www.7cities.net/~mckinnis/os2/ and download the NICPAK package, read the documentation and try it. Hopefully your card will work. If not go to a used computer store or goodwill etc and spend a couple of bucks on a card. Just a couple of years ago most cards worked with OS/2.
To configure, go to system setup and choose Adapters and Protocol Services. Or type in mpts at a command prompt. Setup tcpip first and see if you can ping other computers on your network.
For networking with win9x boxes you need to setup netbios over tcpip, not the default netbios.
Really you also need to upgrade mpts etc but unluckily the site I used for pointers to the file locations is now gone and I can't remember the files or location to upgrade. Maybe someone else will chime in
Dave
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