I thought I had sent this once but have not seen it appear. If you did
see the first go apologies but this is slightly updated.
==============================
OK so I've been playing again :-)
I am in the process of converting my printing from a PC attached
printer to a network printer. Got it set up from the laptop and
rebooted. It got some way into the boot and just stopped. It made some
very brief blip noises just before it stopped.
I tried again. Same thing. OK so I messed up something. Booted from the
ECS install CD - No problem. Restored a backup of the C drive. Rebooted
- same. Booted off a Knoppix CD - same, whilst detecting devices.
Booted PC Doctor from floppy and ran the full diags. Several cups of
tea later it hung testing the Intel modem - T21 has an Intel 10/100
mini PCI. Hmmm. Removed card, rebooted. Up it came apart from no
network. So it looks like something is up with the modem that stops
device detection in its tracks. The diags for the LAN side worked fine
though. Now the T21 was bought new and came with a 3com 3C556 mini PCI
card for which there were no OS/2 drivers at the time. So I bought the
Intel one. Modem still did not work because the buggers fitted three
different modem chipsets on that card and only one works in OS/2. I got
one of the other two of course :-(
Googling around it looked like it might be supported by Genmac, PCI
scanner reports vendor 10B7 and device 6056. But I could not get Genmac
to recognise the card. More Googling turned up a post to the effect
that a one byte, actually one nibble, zap to EL90X.sys fixes the
problem. Did that and lo the card was found. The really odd thing is
that it would appear to have a MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00
Again Google turns up similar on Linux, also all FFs. I have seen both,
but boot the Knoppix CD and it correctly yields the MAC address printed
on the card.
Sometimes when I boot the network does not come up at all and you
cannot prod it into life. Another boot and it is fine. It still gives
the sound blips on booting ECS but not Knoppix.
The performance is a bit iffy as well. It seems very slow. A netstat -n
revealed that the card is only running at 10 rather than 100 but it
seems crap even for a 10 card. OTH the TCP stats don't show any
errors/retries etc.
However at least having a "working" card in there lets me use the wifi.
Having the old card not load changed the damn interface numbers :-( I
only have an Artem wifi card but that is out performing the 3Com at the
moment.
??
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Regards
Dave Saville
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