Subj : Re: help for socket service for ethernetcard in portable
To   : Your
From : Steve
Date : Mon Feb 25 2002 11:55 am

From: Steve@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Steve)
Subject: Re: help for socket service for ethernetcard in portable

From: "E. S. (Steve) Fabian" <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net>

Your wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to install dos (6.2) on a compaq presario 1685 portable and be
> able to use my xircom ethernet-card for networking.
>
> First I'm trying to get it working with a ms-dos 6.2 bootdisk with the ms-
> network-client-3 files. I do have the driver for the xircom card
> (cbendis.exe) and with "net.exe" with the command "net init" it loads just
> fine (the green led turns on). But when I load the socket service 2.1
> (ssvlsi.exe from CardSoft) the led goes off and (ofcourse) I am not able to
> search for other pc's on the network and so on.
>
> Without loading any socket service the tcptsr.exe crashes (because it
> doesn't know where the xircom-card can be found?) and networking isn't
> possible either...

I had used MSDOS 6.2 and 7.0 with Netware on a Toshiba laptop with Xircom's
network + 28.8 card. Worked fine, but Netware needed several TSR programs:
LSL
XPSODI
IPXODI
EMSNETX

There were some configuration files as well, customized to the LAN I was
connecting to.
Once the network was running, I could start Win3.1, or - under DOS 7) - the GUI
pasrt of Win95.
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E. S. "Steve" Fabian               ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net
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EMPIRE Consultants, Inc.           Director, Software Development
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