PJ15955 - INSTALLATION AND/OR SELECTIVE INSTALL OF OS/2 3.0 CAUSES THE SYSTEM TO HANG IF NE2000 ETHERNET CARD IS PRESENT

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APAR Identifier ...... PJ15955
 INSTALLATION AND/OR  SELECTIVE INSTALL  OF OS/2 3.0 CAUSES THE
  SYSTEM TO HANG IF NE2000 ETHERNET CARD IS PRESENT.
 
 Symptom ...... AB INSTLAPAR         Status ........... OPEN
 Severity ................... 2      Date Closed .........
 Component .......... 562260100      Duplicate of .........
 Reported Release ......... 300      Fixed Release ............
 Component Name OS/2 WARP V3         Special Types ..
 Current Target Date ..              Type of Relief ..Not Available
 SCP ................... OS/2        Platform ............ OS/2
 
 Status Detail: Not Available
 
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 ERROR DESCRIPTION:
 During the Instllation of OS/2 Warp may cause a system to hang
 on Maintenacne Desktop with a message "Initializing
 Installation Program... Please Wait" if NE2000 card is present.
 The halt may also occur during Selective Install just before it
 gives hard drive information. Cold boot is needed in order to
 recover from hang.
 .
 This problem may cause by following reasons during Instllation.
 1. If network card or any two devices sharing the same IRQ.
 2. If the card is using the port address which is conflicting
 with other device port address.
 3. If the NE2000 card is configured at 300H port address, it
 may not be conflicting but it seems to be one of other device
 driver is defaulting to this address.
 
 
 LOCAL FIX:
 1. OS/2 requires unique Interrupt. Use the unique IRQ for each
 device.
 2. Shouldn't be a conflict in port address either.
 3. Use the different port address for NE2000 card. For example;
 360H, 340H, ETC. Please, refer to owner manual for the card in
 order to move the port address since NET.CFG needs to be
 modified as well.
 

Notes

Peter Childs (pjchilds@apanix.apana.org.au) writes:

I noticed a reference on this page about NE2000's stopping warp installing. The fix - just add the following line to your config sys...

BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /IO:320,20 /IRQ:10

The old NE2000 clones cant handle being probed so this stops OS/2 probing it.

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