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In <5dklaf$o4m@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> alstern@ibm.net (Alan Stern) writes:

>I am trying to set up a parallel cable network between my desktop & laptop.
>After days of experimenting, my main problem is that during boot-up I get the
>message "A value specified in PROTOCOL.INI is not valid.
>             IOPORT = 888 (0x378)
>             A failure during initialization has occurred"

>0x378 is the address of the lpt port I am using (with irq 7).
>The protocol.ini file is created by the MPTS program and writes the line that
>the bombs out !!!!

>Any help suggestions etc. would be appreciated.

It's a stupid error in the docs. If you use LPT1, you can leave the field out,
as it will default to it anyway, otherwise you should edit it to
IOPORT = LPTx

were x is the parallel port number.

Really stupid actually, since the install program also nags if you don't enter
a numerical value, but the driver itself won't work with it, but the text 
version. Oh, well.

>(The really frustrating thing is that a similar process took 15 minutes to
>parallel connect 2 win95 machines. Sometimes I wonder why I bother with os/2
>aaarrrggghhhhh !!!!! )

Because MicroSlop is EVIL.

/C
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