Arcnet and Client32

[Brian Schonecker]

I'm trying to get a plain vanilla DOS machine to boot Thomas Conrad Arcnet
card with Client32 DOS.

I have the TCCARC.COM file dated 01/04/1994 which is the latest that I've
been able to find.

Everything goes well in the STARTNET.BAT file until I hit

LOAD PC32MLID.LAN

PC32MLID complains about the DOS ODI Board 1 driver being incompatible with
the 32 bit client and tells me to urge the manufacturer to update the
driver.
I'm using a Thomas-Conrad 6042 arcnet card.

Any way to get Arcnet and Client32 to get along?

B

[Tomasz Hubicki]

Maybe generic TRXNET.COM driver from VLM client would work with your
card ? It's also rather old (01-04-96), but give it a try.

Tomasz Hubicki

[Barry St.John [SysOp]]

The TCCARC.COM is the latest (last) version. Here's an excerpt from my
own STARTNET.BAT from when I ran Client32 with TCC ARCNet/TCNS.

C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NIOS.EXE
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\LSL.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\N16ODI.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NESL.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\TRXNET.COM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\LSLC32.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\PC32MLID.LAN
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\IPX.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\CLIENT32.NLM

Looks like I used Novell's generic ARCNet driver (TRXNET) instead of the
TCC specific one. Maybe give that a try.

-Barry. [Novell Support Connection SysOp]

[Brian Schonecker]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately the TRXNET.COM file that I had to
manually extract (which by the way, didn't expand at all) from the
TRXNET.CO_ file reboots. my PC.

The file that I have is 10k in size. Could I be messing up the EXPAND.EXE
process?

B

"Barry St.John [SysOp]" <Chicago...@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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[Ben A L Jemmett]

> The file that I have is 10k in size. Could I be messing up the EXPAND.EXE
> process?

I think the NWClient disks use NWXTRACT.EXE or something of that ilk -
EXPAND.EXE sounds like the MS-DOS and Win3 expander to me. ICBW, though.

--
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett - Usenet replies to bal.j...@ukonline.co.uk.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

[Brian Schonecker]

At the risk of sounding like a moron, I must state:

I've been unable to locate NWXTRACT.EXE even though Novell File Finder
indicates a bunch of hits in the client software.

I've downloaded a bunch of 'valid hit' programs but NWXTRACT.* doesn't
exist.

Ideas, anyone?

B
"Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.j...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Brian Schonecker]

ARGGH! i've managed to find NWXTRACT on the NW 4.1 CD but now I'm having
trouble with the syntax:

Directory of P:\bschone\nw

02/16/1996 03:16a 275,653 NWXTRACT.EXE
01/04/1994 04:08p 9,273 TCCARC.CO_
09/22/1994 03:19p 3,966 NWXTRACT.MSG
3 File(s) 288,892 bytes
2 Dir(s) 15,353,643,008 bytes free

P:\bschone\nw> nwxtract p: tccarc.co_ /t=dos

NWXtract - File Extraction and Copy Utility
Extracting the file TCCARC.CO_.
NWXTRACT-4.02-107: The master data file was not found on drive P.

Huh?

[Brian Schonecker]

Continuing saga....

Managed to "find" a TRXNET.COM from 'somewhere'. When running it against my
NET.CFG and verifying that all parameters are set correctly, TRXNET fails to
find my TC Arcnet card even though TCCARC.COM does find it.

B

[Barry St.John [SysOp]]

I think you might need to switch your NIC to compatibility mode instead of
running it in enhanced mode. Enhanced mode would allow for the "burst
mode" of the driver to operate. But the TRXNET driver, eventhough it is
generic, will nearly match the TCC driver with the card in enhanced mode.

[Brian Schonecker]

Again: THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP.

That took care of the TRXNET.COM finding the card.......
Now yet ANOTHER issue: (do I have any hair left to pull out: :-) )

Lockups when loading PC32MLID.LAN.

C:\Novell\Client32> load pc32mlid.lan

novell 16-bit MPT to 32-Bit MLI SHIP for Client32. v1.04a (971126)
PC32MLID: Scanning for DOS ODI 16 bit LSL
PC32MLID: DOS ODI 16-bit LSL found at F31:1AF

PC32MLID: Shimming DOS ODI Board: 1, Name: TRXNET, Frame: NOVELL_RX-NET.
PC32MLID: DOS ODI BOARD: 1 Name: TRXNET is uaing an old driver. This
driver does not have the functionality to run Client32. Please ask the
adapter vendor to update the driver.
PC32MLID: DOS OID board 1 has been released.

<here the computer locks up>

Here's a copy of my STARTNET.BAT

SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NIOS.EXE
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NBIC32.NLM

C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\LSL.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\N16ODI.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NESL.COM
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\TRXNET.COM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\LSLC32.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\PC32MLID.LAN

LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\TCPIP.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\TRANNTA.NLM

LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\IPX.NLM

LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\SPX_SKTS.NLM

LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\CLIENT32.NLM

Here's a listing of the files STARTNET.BAT uses:

NIOS DRV 7,680 12-21-95 7:03a
NBIC32 NLM 54,451 10-07-98 3:49p
LSL COM 18,356 04-01-96 10:55a
N16ODI COM 9,053 11-20-97 7:44p
NESL COM 9,696 04-01-96 11:16a
TRXNET COL 10,026 04-06-95 10:28a
TRXNET COM 18,765 04-08-97 1:43p
TRXNET CO_ 10,026 04-06-95 10:28a
LSLC32 NLM 20,043 09-22-98 12:12p
PC32MLID LAN 33,265 11-26-97 4:52p
TCPIP NLM 233,674 11-05-98 1:39p
TRANNTA NLM 32,792 10-31-98 4:07p
IPX NLM 114,903 02-12-98 11:18a
SPX_SKTS NLM 41,902 08-04-98 12:14p
CLIENT32 NLM 517,675 12-10-98 12:19p