Okay, Lantastic problem solved.  It was a combination OS/2 and Lantastic
problem.  First, let me state that Lantastic 5.0 works in an OS/2 DOS box,
REPORTEDLY.  I haven’t seen it with my own eyes, but I’ve heard this from
Artisoft ( over the phone from a sales droid ).

NOW, the problem I have is that I am running Lantastic 4.10 with a
NodeRunnder 2000 card.  To get this to work you must make a DOS boot image,
or run a "DOS from Drive A" session so that there is no resource
contention.  THEN, you must run Version 4.1 AILANBIO, NODERUN, and REDIR
executables that COME WITH THE NR2000.  The problem is, when you get the
Ethernet drive disk with the NR2000, it is assumed you are running
Lantastic 5.0.  So, you need to go into \4.10 and run V410.EXE in your
lantastic directory.  This will install the necessary drivers.  From the
point on, STARTNET.BAT should work.  Hope this helps.

Brian
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I have a consistent way to cause trap E.
Compile under dos with bcc (to use DPMI I guess)
then run a program that hooks the timer interrupt and exit
the program leaving the interrupt around (e.g. ctrl-c
out of my developed program that I shouldnt do
bang, instead of simply closing the dos window, os/2 crashes.

Well known?
details (incl. source code) on demand.

I have also had repeated instances of a dosbox refusing to
be closed and eating up the cpu. annoying does not begin
to describe it; reboot the only way out. I have not bothered
to retry it to find a "repeatable" case.

I also had at least two total crashes going from dos full screen
to windowed, the system totally crashed with blank video screen
(I was unable to return to the dos screen etc; it wasn’t a video loss)

OS/2 2.1 is still pretty buggy IMO, plenty of PM/windows
screwup/non-working items and far from perfect dos protection.
If NT is any better (but I’m certain it aint I’d switch.

Using 486-66 8Mhz SCSI 8514 all directly os2 supported.

– Michael

ps. please don’t tell me to fill a report etc. I’m more than willing
to work with a person on these bugs, but not to spend my time filling
reports that go to a black hole.

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Old Problem:  do selective install of 2.1; WINOS2 doesn’t work
New Solution:  do full install of 2.1
Conclusion:  IBM didn’t anticipate all of the possible combinations of
   a selective installation, thus something critical must have been
   left out, preventing WINOS2 from working properly

Old Problem:  made new directory on (FAT) optical disk; copied files to
   that directory, but they showed up both in that directory and the root
   directory; in fact, a directory listing of that new subdirectory
   revealed a mirror image of the root directory listing, including that
   subdirectory, which I could cd into ad infinitum (until the maximum
   path length was exceeded); any file deleted in the subdirectory also
   caused it to be deleted in the root directory; couldn’t remove the
   directory because the other root directories were still listed under it
New Solution:  run CHKDSK /F on the disk; the subdirectory was identified
   as invalid and changed to a file (which, incidentally, was marked as
   system, hidden, and read only after the CHKDSK fix, but why?)
Conclusion:  ???  Was unable to reproduce this particular bug.  Made the
   same exact subdirectory again, copied the same exact files to it, and
   this time it worked fine.

New Problem:  original installation of 2.1 included the PostScript printer
   driver for the HP LaserJet 4; later, added the PostScript printer driver
   for an Apple LaserWriter Plus by dragging the printer template from the
   templates folder and filling in all the information in the settings
   notebook; now, I want to change the HP LaserJet 4 driver from the
   PostScript one to the LaserJet one, so I shredded the original printer
   icon for the LaserJet and dragged a new printer template from the
   templates folder to the desktop, but no settings notebook appeared;
   double clicking (LMB) on the icon does nothing, and clicking (RMB)
   brings up a menu with only a single entry in it:  Help; selecting
   "Create another" from the Apple printer icon produces the same impotent
   printer icon; the system prevents these new printer icons from being
   shredded, but you can select them and then press the delete key to get
   rid of them; any ideas how to go about fixing this problem?

Well, hi again people.
I installed OS/2 about 12 hours ago, and managed to crash this damn thing
twice.  OS/2 is bullet proof??  HA!  For me, it crashes more often than
Windows!
Okay, the first crash was kinda acceptable.  I tried to push it to
the limit.  I was playing .AVI movies out of CDROM.  I was impressed!
This is what I call multimedia!  But then it seemed to me the animation
wasn’t that smooth.  But I was using Toshiba 3401 with 300kb/s and 200ms!!  
Anyway, I thought it was CD ROM drive that was slowing down the animation,
so I wanted to try it from HD.  So what the heck, in the middle of playing,
I tried to copy another .AVI file from CDROM to my HD by ctrl-dragging
the icon.  
As the HD load got high, the animation got even jerkier.  
All of the sudden, I got out of space error.  Out of space?!  How big
was the file anyway?? So I went in, and did dir, and the file was 15M!  
Oh well, I should have checked it before copying it.
So I tried to delete it, but the file was read only somehow.  
I did attrib -r and del *.avi.  Then it complained about block allocation
error and recommended chkdsk on it.  So I did, and it looked like it was fixed.
Then I tried to copy it again to another partition.  But I mistakenly
dropped the icon to 10M partition, and I got out of space error again.
Then I tried to delete it, so I did attrib -r.  And then it goes *BOOM!*.
Internal error! blah blah.  Please contact your nearest representative?!
Oh well, I guess HPFS isn’t that stable enough.  But it’s been around
since OS/2 1.x!
Anyway, after rebooting it (I had to do hard-boot since C-A-D didn’t work)
I wanted to change the mouse double click rate.  So I opened up the mouse
setup, and adjusted the setting.  And then suddenly *BOOM AGAIN!*.
The same internal error!  I didn’t do anyting special this time!  I was just
playing with damn mouse!
I can’t believe this "GA" version crashes like that.  One misbehaving
application doesn’t bring down the whole system?  It runs DOS better than DOS
and Windows better than Windows??  Well, it crashes more often than
DOS and Windows combined!!

frustrated,

Jongyoon

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I applied the HPFS fix on my 2.1GA. Someone said that it was
suppose to be applied to 2.1 even though the Docs say
otherwise. I got news for you, don’t use it. When you do a
hard reset, you will get a TRAP D when CHKDSK /F will start.
The error I get is "the file system is incompatible with
this OS/2 version".

You won’t lose data, but it’s aggravating to reboot using
floppies.

Adrian

Occasionally I will get a divide by zero error in entering Win/os2.  I’ll
turn around and enter win/os2 again and NOT get the error,  And I haven’t
changed a thing. Simply reclicked the win/os2 icon! What in the world is
that?

Kevin

I have a problem with OS/2 2.1 printing grayscale images from joeview
and galleria on my HP DeskJet-500.  Under 2.0, the images in question
printed fine from galleria (I didn’t have joeview back then), but under
2.1, the images all print very dark (like most grays go to black).

Is there some setting I’m missing in the printer setup, or was there an
exhancement made to the HP DeskJet-500 driver for 2.1GA?

Please email replies to me, and I will summarize to the net.
Ric (<r…@CS.Arizona.EDU> "Ric Anderson", speaking for himself)

This may or may not be a bug, but I thought that this was probably the
best place to post it anyway.

I just started using HA/5 for OS/2 (switched from Qmodem) and since
about the only DOS program I have left is WP5.1 and I’ll be taking
care of that pretty soon, I thought it was time to start trying out
PROTECTONLY mode. So I changed the line in my config.sys, and REMed
out what I thought were all of the DOS device drivers. After
rebooting, I noticed that ANY attempt to access COM1 (modem) resulted
in a TRAP D. This includes using ‘COPY CON COM1:’. Thinking that maybe
I had REMed out something that the COM.SYS driver needed, I returned
EVERYTHING to the way it was, but left PROTECTONLY=YES. Same problem.
Switching back to PROTECTONLY=NO makes it work again, even though I
didn’t change anything else.

Anybody know what the deal is here?

TTYL – Steve
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I just installed the 2.1 upgrade this weekend and found a very
interesting bug (IBM has been notified) – 2.1 seems to insist that I
have 2 hard drives (physical, not partitions) even though only one is
present. The second drive is almost but not quite a mirror of the first
(same directory, different amount of space free) and tends to give me a
Drive D: was incorrectly stopped run  chkdsk on bootup, which has gotten
really annoying. This seems to occur semi-randomly (I haven’t had many
boots yet – no crashes ), regardless of whether or not the system was
shut down correctly. Everything else I have (DOS 4.0 FDISK, DOS 5.0
FDISK, OS/2 2.0 FDISK, CMOS, Norton Utilities) says that there is only
one harddrive.

Approx. way of installing:
A couple of weeks ago, re-installed 2.0 with a repartitioning of the
drive into c:40 Mb d:84 Mb

Started to install 2.1 this weekend, didn’t have enough space on c: (I
would have thought there would be enough space since I didn’t install
MMPM (yet) or any of the personal productivity, terminal, etc. (I
formatted C: during installation, leaving D: alone)

Re-partitioned to 124 Mb with another attempted 2.1 install. Didn’t
think much of fdisk having a menu for 2 drives. By the time I got
through to the menu portion of the installation, I noticed that the
partitioning had FAILED! – it was set up as previously

Repeat previous ~2-3 times

Set both drives to 124 Mb, this time worked. OS/2 2.1 installed fine,
ran fine, but still insisted that I had 2 drives.

Ran several other FDISKS and Norton, all said I had one drive.

Repartitioned with DOS 5.0 FDISK, started installing 2.1 again, still
said I had 2 drives.

Last time:booted DOS 5.0, repartitioned drive, zeroed out first physical
sector with Norton Disk Editor, installed 2.1

2.1 STILL insists I have two hard drives. Other than that, It runs fine.
I took the autocheck D: out of config.sys (still says D: improperly
stopped on bootup though)

IBM suggested: BIOS upgrade and/or Low Level format (difficult – I have an IDE)

I tend to disaggree with BIOS upgrade (granted, it probably wouldn’t
hurt my system and will probably get it anyway) since OS/2 2.1 (and 2.0)
run fine. The only problem is that stupid drive D: in 2.1

System Configuration:
Packard Bell Legend 386X (16 Mhz 386 sx)
8 Mb RAM
124 Mb Hard Drive (IDE)
Trident 8800C video card (that is not a typo 8800 and NOT 8900)
SoundBlaster Pro (OPL 2?)
Phoenix Bios (1.10 114 (? didn’t write it down before coming to work))
OS/2 2.1 (No Dual Boot or Boot Manager)

Thanks,
Rob M

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                           |  
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I tried a new video card and beta drivers and decided they were too "beta"
for me.  While following the instructions to restore vga (setvga c:), I
found that I was not allowed to select my cdrom.  I had to make the
display disks.

Also, setvga would not complete.  It broke out saying it couldn’t find
a file (without telling me which file).  When rebooting off the harddrive,
I found it didn’t copy over vvga.sys for the dos/winos2 stuff so I had
to do a selective install to insure everything was ok.

Has anyone else had these experiences???

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