RE: Client Access/400 3 for DOS

Holy Cow!

A lifetime ago, I was on the support desk for a 5250 emulation company (BlueLynx or Micro Integration). The company is long gone, but the products I supported were direct rivals to IBM's (mainly because they were difficult to use). But I digress.

If I recall (and I often don't) on those OLD x86 machines you had to go into the BIOS and reserve blocks of memory that those cards used. I'm also fairly sure that IPX/SPX (Netware) often conflicted with the Token Ring communications. I could be wrong. But I think that's why our twinax gateways were so popular... they ran on NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, and (gulp) Banyan Vines natively. OMG - I think I just got a pimple :).

HTH,
Greg

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrik Schindler
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 3:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Client Access/400 3 for DOS

Hello,

can anyone remember this one? I'm trying to install on a real 386 with an IBM ISA Token Ring Card. I configured with LANAID and the Novell Netware Client for DOS can successfully use the card and connect to a Netware Server (via IPX). Also, the card's running fine with a very old Debian Release.

There are no hardware configuration options at install time besides choosing connection type, where I chose Local LAN, and then fill out local and remote system names, and the MAC of the AS/400's Token Ring Adapter.

When I do a test connect, the command STARTRTR is issued in a batch file. This one gives the error "5240 The Token-Ring adapter is not present". See screenshot at https://leela.pocnet.net/~poc/ca.jpg

Of course, Google turns up no helpful stuff. Anybody remembers this ancient stuff?

:wq! PoC

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