Date:	Fri, 28 May 93 09:26:32 +0200
From:	Peter Rojsel <Peter DOT Rojsel AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se>
Subject:	Re: Novell and DJGPP
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>Peter Roejsel writes:
>>I have two identical 486-machines except for an SMC ethernet adapter.
>>On the one without ethernet DJGPP works very good. On the one with ethernet
>>adapter anything compiled with DJGPP hangs the computer if Novells IPX and
>>NETX has been loaded. I have excluded the ethernet cards ram buffer from
>>the memory area that EMM386 uses by setting the switch /x=...
>>What have I done wrong?
>
Peter Crowley writes:
>It may be that you do not have enough conventional memory available on the 
>machine with IPX/NETx. What does the 'mem' program report? You will need at
>least 500k free. If this is the problem you could try loading high IPX and
>NETx. Or replacing NETx with EMSNETx with takes only 9k.
>

mem reports 562864 bytes free with emsnetx loaded and djgcc compiled programs 
still hangs the machine. I have narrowed down the problem to that only when 
netx or emsnetx is loaded even if I am not logged into the Novell server the 
problem occurrs, but I still haven't got a clue.

Peter Roejsel




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