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Date:	Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:41:23 PST8
From:	Michael Rakijas <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: PUSH onto PROBLEM STACK

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Hi folks,

Well, I'm finally getting back to trying to squash the TCP/IP bug with my home
network and the one eCS machine on it. My current strategy was to set up
another dummy eCS machine. Unfortunately, setup problems that occur get pushed
onto, and need to get popped off the problem stack before I can address my
objective. In short, I can't get the eCS machine to recognize, and load the
driver for the network card, a D-Link 530TX+ 10/100 adapter.

I've tried all the obvious stuff. I've swapped out cards and I'm pretty sure
it's not hardware because I can run the DOS-based diagnostics in a DOS session
and it sees the card fine. The diagnostics themselves look good. I deinstalled
and reinstalled MPTS with the driver for the card with no change in behavior.
The objective machine that I am trying to debug uses the card and loads the
driver with no difficulty. I confirmed no corruption with the driver files
(DLKRTS.NIF, DLKRTS.OS2 and PROTOCOL.INI). When booting this dummy machine, the
driver states that no netcards were found and a serious error is reported. The
driver, loaded soon after the UDF driver banner, refuses to load.

The only remaining thing I could think of was a BIOS conflict. I updated the
BIOS (a Dell XPS R450) to the most recent available and the IRQ reported by the
diagnostics (IRQ11) is set to available in the BIOS resource settings. The
address reported by the diagnostics is 1000H but I see nowhere in the BIOS where
I can make sure that that address is available. Does anyone have any
suggestions that I might try? Thanks in advance.

-Rocky

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