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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:55:32 -0500 (New York)
From: Gary Welles <gary AT wellesway DOT com>
To: OpenDos <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: PNW vs Netware (and NE2000 drivers)
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

> 1) Can anyone confirm (or otherwise) that Novell's VLM ODI NE2000
> driver is broken, when using an original (early 90's) Novell card?

I'm under the illusion that only the ODI driver sees the
hardware and that the VLM may be asking something of it that
it's not configured for.  You mentioned INT 5 and PORT 300,
but not FRAME type.  Perhaps the VLM's default differs from
that of the ODI driver.

> 2) Have I correctly interpreted Ben's posting, which to me says that
> the Client32 drivers are incompatible with PNW?

He appears to have referred to incompatiblity between
machines one running PNW, the other Netware.  I also expect
the "32" in Client32 refers to Win32 and not the underlying
16-bit DOS.

My experience has been to get something to work and then
experiment.  I use only the IPX transport with DESQview/X's
X-server providing TCP/IP network services:

     E32C - E464   4.8K    Used (LSL)
     E465 - E581   4.4K    Used (E200P)
     E582 - E75F   7.4K    Used (IPXODI)

It's another set of configuration issues, but DV/X is both
client and server.  At a minimum it could be an FTP server to
other machines on your network.

     NAME=DESQview
     URL=http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html

-- Gary Welles