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Networking / Re: OS/2, Realtek and NIC drivers
« on: October 10, 2013, 09:01:49 pm »
OK.
Two things of note.
ARP -a or netstat -arp in the above posting is reporting the hardware address of a NIC on another machine. This other machine is connected to this one. But there is nothing else given by ARP -a or netstat -arp. I have no idea why this is so, but I'm sure that someone in the OS/2 community does.
Secondly, W7 was able to successfully produce my Adapter Address.
I entered it into the Network Adapter Address entry field for the Mensys RTL driver, (via "Adapters and Protocols"), and rebooted. This time the TCP/IP works... but the Netbios still does not.
Thanks, Neil, it was a good idea, but has not been effective. However, the Physical Address of my onboard NIC is now properly displayed in "netstat -n"... which is something.
Now I have to find that GenMAC RTL driver and see if that works.
Addendum:
But before I do that, there is one more thing of note:
When I first tried the onboard NIC using the rtgnda13 driver that was already installed, (I moved my hardrive from my previous machine to this one), Netbios did not work.
However, when I disabled the onboard NIC and installed my previous NIC in a PCI slot and rebooted, everything worked fine. But I needed that NIC for another machine. I reactivated the onboard NIC and installed the Mensys RTL driver.
Since then, Netbios will not work with either of these NICs; I keep getting that Mugwepop.exe popup when I try to logon the network.
I suspect that installing the Mensys driver altered something else that is not being updated... what that can be I yet, have no idea; time will tell.
Two things of note.
ARP -a or netstat -arp in the above posting is reporting the hardware address of a NIC on another machine. This other machine is connected to this one. But there is nothing else given by ARP -a or netstat -arp. I have no idea why this is so, but I'm sure that someone in the OS/2 community does.
Secondly, W7 was able to successfully produce my Adapter Address.
I entered it into the Network Adapter Address entry field for the Mensys RTL driver, (via "Adapters and Protocols"), and rebooted. This time the TCP/IP works... but the Netbios still does not.
Thanks, Neil, it was a good idea, but has not been effective. However, the Physical Address of my onboard NIC is now properly displayed in "netstat -n"... which is something.
Now I have to find that GenMAC RTL driver and see if that works.
Addendum:
But before I do that, there is one more thing of note:
When I first tried the onboard NIC using the rtgnda13 driver that was already installed, (I moved my hardrive from my previous machine to this one), Netbios did not work.
However, when I disabled the onboard NIC and installed my previous NIC in a PCI slot and rebooted, everything worked fine. But I needed that NIC for another machine. I reactivated the onboard NIC and installed the Mensys RTL driver.
Since then, Netbios will not work with either of these NICs; I keep getting that Mugwepop.exe popup when I try to logon the network.
I suspect that installing the Mensys driver altered something else that is not being updated... what that can be I yet, have no idea; time will tell.