2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
8:35 p.m.
On 6/2/05, SUPRDAVE at aol.com <SUPRDAVE at aol.com> wrote:
I'm surprised you cannot get a NIC to work in
OS/2. If it's a 3com or
Cabletron, it should be dead easy, as long as you've got the NDIS drivers.
Sometimes you have to monkey around with ibmlan.ini I think.
It's neither. I got the machine onto my home LAN with a Research
Machines MCA NIC, but it's /only/ supported under DOS and Windows 3,
nothing else. No use for NT. But I managed to turn up a Novell/Eagle
NE2-something - I forget now, this is nearly 10y ago - which is
basically an MCA NE2000.
But naturally, IBM being IBM and OS/2 being OS/2, Warp Server doesn't
include drivers for weird minority cards like NE2000s. You can
download them readily enough if you search - I used to be a keen OS/2
user, I was used to this - but the MCA version uses weird ports that
are impossible with ISA cards, so the ISA card drivers won't accept
the settings.
So after several days of fiddling, I gave up. NT will do fine. I must
find some really lightweight HTTP server for NT3 some day and turn the
old girl into a webserver - it's about all she's good for now... But
even at the age of 10, for several years she was my main fileserver
and stored all my work (I'm a freelance IT journalist, amongst other
things) and gave sterling service. Bulletproof. Probably literally,
given the build quality of the early PS/2s.
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