🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:05:05, "Simon Hampton" <simon.hampton@tvd.be> 
wrote:

> 
> Mike Oliphant a �crit dans le message <35D4F70F.8F039479@ibm.net>...
> 
> Thanks very much for your quick response
> 
> >Do the drivers load OK during boot? Both should give some confirmation of
> this.
> >Check your IBMLAN\IBMLAN.INI on both machines to make sure the domains are
> the
> >same. On one machine try NET SHARE CDRIVE=C:\, on the other try NET USE P:
> >\\machine_name\CDRIVE, where machine_name is the name shown in the
> IBMLAN.INI
> >just above where you saw the domain name on the PC you are trying to
> connect
> >with.
> 
> 
> I tried this and got what is now a familiar message for me:
> 
> NET3502: OS/2 error 53 has occurred.
> SYS0053: The network path was not found.
> 
> >If you still can't connect, install TCPIP, give one machine address
> 10.2.1.1 and
> >the other 10.2.1.2 with the netmask 255.255.255.0 and see if you can ping
> one
> >from the other. If not, see if you can ping a machine's own address (ie.
> one the
> >one with address 10.2.1.1 issue the command PING 10.2.1.1) and see if that
> >works. If so, try it on the other machine too because such a local ping can
> tell
> >you whether there is a problem associated with the card or not. If both
> cards
> >come out OK, you are back to square one - trying to figure out what is
> wrong
> >with your peer.
> 
> 
> I tried this too.  The local pings worked, but not those accross the
> network.
> I should add that both cards are Combo cards and I know they work via the
> UTP plug as I have connected to the internet using both via a cable modem.
> What I cannot be sure is whether the cards are now using the Coax port = is
> a warm boot enough to get the 3c905 card to use its other exit plug?

I've had all sorts of grief with the 3COM media detect, so at the 
first sign of trouble I boot to DOS and run the setup program to set 
the card to what it needs to be.  I frequently find that the media 
detect has been locked to the wrong setting (usually 10baseT  instead 
of 10base2 for thinwire.

Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>