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Hi everybody,

I have had a couple of almost helpful comments and good college tries from=
 various corners but no cigar. (special thanks to tom szilagyi).

The answer is so stupid that it should published everywhere as warning to=
 users and manual writers. In short the answer is  "NEVER TRUST COMMENT LINE=
S!!!!".

1. Compaq Contura's claim to be plug and play.
2. the protocol.ini file from compaq is as follows:


; Section of the PROTOCOL.INI for Compaq Integrated Ethernet Controller
[CPQNDIS_NIF]
DRIVERNAME=3DCPQNDIS$
;PS2BIDIR
;COAX
;RJ45
;DISABLELINK

the ";" are supposed to be comments. If your memory configuration is correct=
 (a big _if_ but most of us can deal with that problem) this protocol.ini=
 file will not work, and you will not get access to the card services.=20

If you delete the "comments" from the protocol.ini e.g.=20



; Section of the PROTOCOL.INI for Compaq Integrated Ethernet Controller
[CPQNDIS_NIF]
DRIVERNAME=3DCPQNDIS$

It will work as expected.=20

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa,
it has taken us a full year to figure this out, no help from COMPAQ,=
 Microdyne, National Semiconductor or the great and mighty Digital=
 Equipment. (though Digital wanted $200/hour to give it a try and when=
 pressed sent a few unhelpful comments about hibernation and powersavers for=
 free.)

I think this causes problems no matter what network you are trying to load.=
 We have tested it with Pathworks and Chamaeleon.

It has a been a hard long slog, and of others who shared our agony two had=
 given up and went to other cards which for some reason worked. This same=
 error applies to the docking-base/Ethernet problem.
If anybody is truly interested in the deeper aspects of this tragedy I will=
 gladly send you the three versions of our csalloc.ini, protocol.ini, and=
 config.sys files
1. the plain Vanilla from the vendor disks
2. the versions as mangled by Pathworks setup.
and=20
3. the functional versions that we now use.

Cheers and greetings from Germany,

Thomas P. Coats

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Thomas P. Coats
EDV-Koordination
Akademie fuer Technikfolgenabschaetzung in Baden -Wuerttemberg
Industriestr 5.=20
D-70565 Stuttgart

Germany
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