From theise@NETINS.NET Thu Nov 28 18:43:11 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:29:05 -0500
From: Theodore Heise 
To: HPLX-L@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU
Subject: Re: TECH:TCP/IP and Netware with 200lx and Accton

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, letter wrote:

> I purchased an Accton EN2216-1 card and am having no success connecting to
> my company's LAN.  Can anybody help me get started -- I'd like to be able to
> use telnet, ping, etc. and be able to log in to Netware (not necessarily at
> the same time).

Here's a repost of a message I've sent before in response to a
similar request.  Hope it is helpful.

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For some reason, connecting to the Novell LAN at work was one of the
harder things I've done.  It took me several tries, and lots of help
from others.  I never did get Rod Whitby's driver to work--I used the
set of files (by Nori?) on SUPER.  I suppose now that I got them
working I might be able to go back and get Rod's working, but quite
frankly once I got something to work, fiddling around further was
the *last* thing I wanted to do.  Anyway, here is my setup.

I have in my program directory (I chose c:\prgms\net) the following
files:

lxcic.com
net.cfg
netx.exe
op2216.exe
pd2212.com
pdipx.com

I load lxcic in my autoexec.bat file with:

c:\prgms\net\lxcic /l


Here are the contents of net.cfg and the batch file I use to load
everything.

[net.cfg]
netware dos requestor
first network drive = j

[netup.bat]
copy \prgms\lxtcp\tcp.lan \prgms\lxtcp\tcp.cfg
cd \prgms\net
op2216
pd2212 0x62 5
pdipx
netx
k:


This leaves me at a k:\login prompt and I can log on to the LAN.
Somebody else had to explain to me that the login drive was going
to be the letter *after* the first network drive designated in the
net.cfg file.  This was not at all obvious to me.

I have not gotten so far as to map a network drive.  I use CPack
to move files back and forth, and it's sufficient for me as I don't
do a lot of this.

I also had a lot of trouble getting some of the LXTCP applications
(especially LXTELNET) to run over my LAN's internet connection.
Through other helpful people  on this list (thanks Mike Kopplin!),
I learned that I had to specify a more complete tcp.cfg file.  I
have dynamic IP number assigned through my dial-up account, so that's
why the first line in my batch file exists--two different tcp.cfg
files for two different purposes.

I don't know if you're interested in the LXTCP apps, but
Here's the first portion of my tcp.cfg file [after being copied
from tcp.lan] just in case.

[tcp.cfg]
;****************************
;* General LXTCP parameters *
;****************************

my_ip=192.168.0.143
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1
nameserver=192.168.0.1
domainslist=medinst.com
hostname="lx"


Anyway, hope this information helps.  Good luck!

Ted

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