problems w/Linksys PCMCIA EC2T and qnet...

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Hi…

I am trying to set up a 600 Mhz laptop, Gateway PentIII to run with
QRTP.

The latest fatal problem is with the Linksys PCMCIA EC2T. This card
should be ne2000 compatible (as per the compatibility list), and it
seems to be. BUT…

I do the following…

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -p tcpip

mount -Tio-net /lib/dll/npm-qnet.so

nicinfo

NE2000 Ethernet Controller
Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Current Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Media Rate … 10.00 Mb/s half-duplex UTP
MTU … 1514
Lan … 0
I/O Port Range … 0x200 → 0x21E
Hardware Interrupt … 0x5



in the /etc directory I have:

more net.cfg

nto network config file v1.2

version v1.2

[global]
hostname saic
domain reshall.umich.edu
nameserver 141.211.250.10
nameserver 139.121.16.42
route 141.213.156.1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
lookup file bind

[en0]
type ethernet
mode dhcp
dhcp_id nsoroosh
dhcp_server_ip 141.211.147.251

and also I made sure that net was the only net* file in the
/etc/system/enum/ directory…

pwd

/etc/system/enum/include

more net

macro definitions for network

all
set(IONET_CMD, io-net -ptcpip -ppppmgr)

But nothing works. :frowning:(

I have another two computers in the same physical ethernet hub, and they
talk among themselves very happily. However, I can not detect any of
these two machines in the network from the laptop (nor can I detect the
laptop from either of the happy machines). Moreover, I can not access
any machine in the internet (via telnet, ftp, Voyager or otherwise) via
the laptop, while both of the other machines can’t stop talking over the
internet.

Following some suggestions in some previous posts, I did the following:

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84,default=141.213.156.1

pidin ar | grep io-net

942093 io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84
987174 grep io-net

to no avail.

Just for kicks, I went to Win98 (which operates this rather simple??
PCMCIA card very well) and got the Win98 operating card specs which
were [address at 0x300 and irq=0xA]. Back in the QRTP world I tried to
set this parameters manually, but the results were worse than before
because this time the nicinfo showed that the device driver could not
even get the correct MAC address off the PCMCIA card. :frowning:(


Well, once again I am lost, and worse, this is only the begining (next I
have to port QNX4 files to QRTP).

Thank you so much for any suggestions/pointers that you may share with
me.

Bests…

Miguel

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Previously, Miguel Simon wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.os:

Hi…

I am trying to set up a 600 Mhz laptop, Gateway PentIII to run with
QRTP.

The latest fatal problem is with the Linksys PCMCIA EC2T. This card
should be ne2000 compatible (as per the compatibility list), and it
seems to be. BUT…

I do the following…

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -p tcpip

Here is your problem. You must specify the ioport and irq to the ne2000
driver. Do a ‘pin’ and note the ioport and irq. Then you start io-net
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=aaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport
from pin and bb is the irq.

mount -Tio-net /lib/dll/npm-qnet.so

nicinfo

NE2000 Ethernet Controller
Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Current Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Media Rate … 10.00 Mb/s half-duplex UTP
MTU … 1514
Lan … 0
I/O Port Range … 0x200 → 0x21E
Hardware Interrupt … 0x5
snip



in the /etc directory I have:

more net.cfg

nto network config file v1.2

version v1.2

[global]
hostname saic
domain reshall.umich.edu
nameserver 141.211.250.10
nameserver 139.121.16.42
route 141.213.156.1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
lookup file bind

[en0]
type ethernet
mode dhcp
dhcp_id nsoroosh
dhcp_server_ip 141.211.147.251

and also I made sure that net was the only net* file in the
/etc/system/enum/ directory…

pwd

/etc/system/enum/include

more net

macro definitions for network

all
set(IONET_CMD, io-net -ptcpip -ppppmgr)

But nothing works. > :frowning:> (

I have another two computers in the same physical ethernet hub, and they
talk among themselves very happily. However, I can not detect any of
these two machines in the network from the laptop (nor can I detect the
laptop from either of the happy machines). Moreover, I can not access
any machine in the internet (via telnet, ftp, Voyager or otherwise) via
the laptop, while both of the other machines can’t stop talking over the
internet.

Following some suggestions in some previous posts, I did the following:

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84,default=141.213.156.1

pidin ar | grep io-net

942093 io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84
987174 grep io-net

to no avail.

Just for kicks, I went to Win98 (which operates this rather simple??
PCMCIA card very well) and got the Win98 operating card specs which
were [address at 0x300 and irq=0xA]. Back in the QRTP world I tried to
set this parameters manually, but the results were worse than before
because this time the nicinfo showed that the device driver could not
even get the correct MAC address off the PCMCIA card. > :frowning:> (


Well, once again I am lost, and worse, this is only the begining (next I
have to port QNX4 files to QRTP).

Thank you so much for any suggestions/pointers that you may share with
me.

Bests…

Miguel

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

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Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.os:

Previously, Miguel Simon wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.os:
Hi…

I am trying to set up a 600 Mhz laptop, Gateway PentIII to run with
QRTP.

The latest fatal problem is with the Linksys PCMCIA EC2T. This card
should be ne2000 compatible (as per the compatibility list), and it
seems to be. BUT…

I do the following…

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -p tcpip



Here is your problem. You must specify the ioport and irq to the ne2000
driver. Do a ‘pin’ and note the ioport and irq. Then you start io-net
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=aaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport

Sorry, I forgot, the above line should read as follows:
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=0xaaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport
from pin and bb is the irq.

mount -Tio-net /lib/dll/npm-qnet.so

nicinfo

NE2000 Ethernet Controller
Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Current Physical Node ID … 00E098 743DB0
Media Rate … 10.00 Mb/s half-duplex UTP
MTU … 1514
Lan … 0
I/O Port Range … 0x200 → 0x21E
Hardware Interrupt … 0x5
snip



in the /etc directory I have:

more net.cfg

nto network config file v1.2

version v1.2

[global]
hostname saic
domain reshall.umich.edu
nameserver 141.211.250.10
nameserver 139.121.16.42
route 141.213.156.1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
lookup file bind

[en0]
type ethernet
mode dhcp
dhcp_id nsoroosh
dhcp_server_ip 141.211.147.251

and also I made sure that net was the only net* file in the
/etc/system/enum/ directory…

pwd

/etc/system/enum/include

more net

macro definitions for network

all
set(IONET_CMD, io-net -ptcpip -ppppmgr)

But nothing works. > :frowning:> (

I have another two computers in the same physical ethernet hub, and they
talk among themselves very happily. However, I can not detect any of
these two machines in the network from the laptop (nor can I detect the
laptop from either of the happy machines). Moreover, I can not access
any machine in the internet (via telnet, ftp, Voyager or otherwise) via
the laptop, while both of the other machines can’t stop talking over the
internet.

Following some suggestions in some previous posts, I did the following:

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84,default=141.213.156.1

pidin ar | grep io-net

942093 io-net -dne2000 -pttcpip if=ne0:141.213.158.84
987174 grep io-net

to no avail.

Just for kicks, I went to Win98 (which operates this rather simple??
PCMCIA card very well) and got the Win98 operating card specs which
were [address at 0x300 and irq=0xA]. Back in the QRTP world I tried to
set this parameters manually, but the results were worse than before
because this time the nicinfo showed that the device driver could not
even get the correct MAC address off the PCMCIA card. > :frowning:> (


Well, once again I am lost, and worse, this is only the begining (next I
have to port QNX4 files to QRTP).

Thank you so much for any suggestions/pointers that you may share with
me.

Bests…

Miguel

\

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: > hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

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Hugh…

Thanks a bunch! It works very well now! Now I can access the other
computers on the network!

Bests…

Miguel



Hugh Brown wrote:

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -p tcpip



Here is your problem. You must specify the ioport and irq to the ne2000
driver. Do a ‘pin’ and note the ioport and irq. Then you start io-net
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=aaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport

Sorry, I forgot, the above line should read as follows:
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=0xaaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport
from pin and bb is the irq.

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I am having very similar problems. I took the steps below, but when I run io-net, I get the following error: “ne2000_outs: Unable to set
write address”.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Tom

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:12:26 -0500, Miguel Simon <simon@ou.edu> wrote:

Hugh…

Thanks a bunch! It works very well now! Now I can access the other
computers on the network!

Bests…

Miguel



Hugh Brown wrote:

#slay io-net

io-net -dne2000 -p tcpip



Here is your problem. You must specify the ioport and irq to the ne2000
driver. Do a ‘pin’ and note the ioport and irq. Then you start io-net
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=aaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport

Sorry, I forgot, the above line should read as follows:
as ‘io-net -dne2000 ioport=0xaaa,irq=bb -ptcpip’, where aaa is the ioport
from pin and bb is the irq.