Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:26:32 +0200 From: Peter Rojsel 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Me: Peter Roejsel Org: MAX-lab, National Laboratory for Synchrotron Radiation E-mail: Peter AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se Amateur Radio: SM7LEK Papermail: MAX-lab, University of Lund, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden FAX: +46-46-104710 Phone: +46-46-109717 "And GOD said: E=mc**2 and there was matter!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------