Running OS/2 under Parallels 3.0 for Mac

iComstation 1.2R (OS/2 Warp 4.5) running on an Intel iMac under OS X
10.5.6 and Parallels 3.0, installed today.

If anyone has this combination (or something close to it) working I
would appreciate some help.

I have problems with booting and with the Internet connection.

At boot, these messages appear:

NET3406: An error occurred while opening network device driver
NET1=TCPBEUI$.
NET3406: An error occurred while opening network device driver
NET2=TCPBEUI$.
SYS1719: The file C:\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETWKSTA.200 specified in the
IFS statement
on line 47 of the CONFIG.SYS file does not contain a valid device
driver or file
system driver. Line 47 is ignored.
Press Enter to continue...

Now you'd think, after that, that network access wouldn't work, but in
fact I can ping the router and the DNS.

ProNews and Firefox work. If, however, I post an article to Usenet,
ProNews takes forever to send it and then Internet connectivity is
immediately lost.

Posting from ProNews triggers loss of connectivity, but even in the
absence of posting, after a while the system will lose connectivity.
When that happens, ping can no longer reach the router and DNS.

Wait long enough and connectivity returns all by itself. Ping again
reaches the router and DNS and ProNews again can download article
bodies.

Explanation?

Oh, and another thing: which key on the Mac keyboard acts as Numlock?

Y'all have a Merry Christmas, y'hear now?

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John Varela wrote:

>
> NET3406: An error occurred while opening network device driver
> NET1=TCPBEUI$.
> NET3406: An error occurred while opening network device driver
> NET2=TCPBEUI$.
> SYS1719: The file C:\IBMLAN\NETPROG\NETWKSTA.200 specified in the
> IFS statement
> on line 47 of the CONFIG.SYS file does not contain a valid device
> driver or file
> system driver. Line 47 is ignored.
> Press Enter to continue...
>
> Now you'd think, after that, that network access wouldn't work, but in
> fact I can ping the router and the DNS.

NETBEUI is a driver for a proprietary Microsoft networking protocol.
It was developed to compete with Novel's proprietary protocol. It is not
IP compatible.

Networkstation is the file sharing client for the SMB (now called CIFS)
protocol.

You can safely remove them if you don't plan to use a Microsoft network.
I'm not even sure anything modern supports it. Microsoft has long since
gone to using IP instead.

>
> ProNews and Firefox work. If, however, I post an article to Usenet,
> ProNews takes forever to send it and then Internet connectivity is
> immediately lost.

This sounds like a different problem. The problem you described above
would prevent you from accessing shared files and printers on other computers.


> Posting from ProNews triggers loss of connectivity, but even in the
> absence of posting, after a while the system will lose connectivity.
> When that happens, ping can no longer reach the router and DNS.
>
> Wait long enough and connectivity returns all by itself. Ping again
> reaches the router and DNS and ProNews again can download article
> bodies.

How long to start working again?

It could be many things, but the ones that usually cause this
that are easy to fix are a bad DNS server in the list of them, and an MTU
that is too big.

Geoff.

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