Hi folks,
I was not able to get to the bootom of the original problem and solve it. I still think there's something wrong with the interrupts from the PC Cards - they do not reach the driver.
Anyway, I found another Xircom card: RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56. This is a newer and better card (the other ones I tried were just PCMCIA cards, not CardBus), and the driver is newer, too. And the best part is that it all works! DHCP works, too! (well, most of the time...)
So I no longer need to solve the PC Card problem ...
I did not have to change any settings. I'm not using any socket and card services (as instructed by Xircom).
Interestingly, while the driver loads, it displays the following message:
Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 Adapter NDIS v3.14 (010612)
...
PCI IRQ routing unavailable - the driver is using ISA IRQ routing
Memory address 5B800000, IO Address F500, IRQ 11, Node Address <node-addr>
I do not really understand the IRQ routing secrets, but the message above seems to confirm that there's probably something unusual with my laptop's CardBus controller TI-1225, something that confuses OS/2 only, because Windows and Linux did not have a problem.
Once again thanks for everyone's help
Peter
I was not able to get to the bootom of the original problem and solve it. I still think there's something wrong with the interrupts from the PC Cards - they do not reach the driver.
Anyway, I found another Xircom card: RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56. This is a newer and better card (the other ones I tried were just PCMCIA cards, not CardBus), and the driver is newer, too. And the best part is that it all works! DHCP works, too! (well, most of the time...)
So I no longer need to solve the PC Card problem ...
I did not have to change any settings. I'm not using any socket and card services (as instructed by Xircom).
Interestingly, while the driver loads, it displays the following message:
Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 Adapter NDIS v3.14 (010612)
...
PCI IRQ routing unavailable - the driver is using ISA IRQ routing
Memory address 5B800000, IO Address F500, IRQ 11, Node Address <node-addr>
I do not really understand the IRQ routing secrets, but the message above seems to confirm that there's probably something unusual with my laptop's CardBus controller TI-1225, something that confuses OS/2 only, because Windows and Linux did not have a problem.
Once again thanks for everyone's help
Peter