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New installation OS/2 CP2 - not able to see internet

Started by Mark Heseltine, 2008.06.22, 21:07:38

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Mark Heseltine

Hello,

My OS/2 CP2 system crashed and I reinstalled the OS from CD. All went well but it cannot see my internet connection (high speed DSL direct connection). I've selected TCP/IP Local - LAN interface 0 - Automatically DHCP. I thought that is what I did last time and the system worked perfectly.

Any suggestions?

System:
IBM ThinkCentre S50 8086-36U
Intel Pro 100 1000 built in NIC

Thanks,

Mark

DavidG

Did you install the driver for you network card?  The other setting look ok.

Does your high speed modem have all the normal light lit up?

David

Mark Heseltine

Hello David,

Many thanks for the reply. I could find no driver on the Lenovo site but did download the legacy driver from the Intel site for the pro100/pro1000 (an on-board NIC). I installed it using OS/2's network adapter service. After re-boot, still no connection.

This is frustrating given I had it running wonderfully before. Wished I kept notes.

Mark

DavidG

Quote from: Mark Heseltine on 2008.06.22, 23:01:59
Hello David,

Many thanks for the reply. I could find no driver on the Lenovo site but did download the legacy driver from the Intel site for the pro100/pro1000 (an on-board NIC). I installed it using OS/2's network adapter service. After re-boot, still no connection.

This is frustrating given I had it running wonderfully before. Wished I kept notes.

Mark

Did you install the protocols with the driver? The one you need is IBM TCPIP.

David

Mark Heseltine

I installed that protocol. I note, however, that when I set the TCP/IP Local - LAN interface 0 - Automatic DHCP, after re-boot it reverts back to manual.

Andi

Maybe it helps if you post your \ibmlan\lantran.log

Regarding DHCP - manuall address or DHCP should be set in \mptn\bin\setup.cmd

Maybe you'll post this file too.

Mark Heseltine

Andi,

I spent 1 hour adding data to this message board only to have it time out. Frustrating.

===========
Anyway, LANTRAN.LOG:
LT00073: FFST/2 is installed but is not started. LANTRAN.LOG is being created.
IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [11/02/01] 6.0 is loaded and operational.
IBM OS/2 LAN NETBIND

SETUP.CMD reads:
rate -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lo  127.0.0.1
REM ifconfig lan0
...
REM ifconfig lan7
REM ifconfig s10
ipgate off.

================

Hope someone has some suggestions. The TCP/IP settings don't hold (ie does not hold the automatic setting but goes back to manual.)  I've added the mac address to the network settings and the boot screen messages appears to recognise the network card (built in).

Mark

ddan

Ah, networking... Always blind stabs in the dark. For DHCP you should manually add into SETUP.CMD:
dhcpstrt -i lan0
THEN don't go back into the GUI setup, unless you check and re-do the above.
My SETUP.CMD has "REM arp -f", and I believe you mean "route" not "rate".

However, a careful reading of your first post says "DSL direct connection", which I take to mean you don't have a router, and consequently, no DHCP server. From what I understand, an ordinary DSL box doesn't do DHCP on its own, so that's the place to start.

If you're SURE that the NIC driver is running (likely if no error message from it during boot-up), then from a browser type "http://192.168.1.1", and you should be able to get to -- well, I've never use DSL, but surely somewhere if there's a responding DHCP server.

I'd abandon your dim memory of what worked previously. In any case, my first post here was because of differences between CP2 and W4. CP2 is a bit more warped, ha.

By the way, for lengthy posts, I've taken to typing into a WP rather than risk the on-line editor here bailing out on me, but if it does, click back, then copy the text, login again, and paste the text.

jep

Hello,

In responce to what you've written: Ehhwww.. try TCP Config ( http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tcpconfig ) instead, a great tool that should be included in eCS ASAP as it really make a difference, it can automagically (yes, magic) do the changes so you don't have to restart the computer (at least it tries to).
You don't have to change those things by hand :-)

//Jan-Erik

Updated 2008-06-26: added link to hobbes

Mark Heseltine

Hi Ddan and Jep,

Many thanks for the responses. I do have a router. And I can't communicate with it using that address. However I can communicate with it when I swap out the hard drive for the Windows and the Linux drives.

Anyway, am off for a week and will respond more fully during the week of 7th July. Hopefully I will have positive results by then given your kind suggestions.

Many thanks,

Mark

DavidG

Quote from: jep on 2008.06.25, 14:26:00
Hello,

In responce to what you've written: Ehhwww.. try TCP Config instead, a great tool that should be included in eCS ASAP as it really make a difference, it can automagically (yes, magic) do the changes so you don't have to restart the computer (at least it tries to).
You don't have to change those things by hand :-)

//Jan-Erik


Could it be that the file that the changes are written to is marked readonly and as a result, his changes aren't saved.  What file are the changes written to that can be checked for this attribute?

David

Andi

Quote from: Mark Heseltine on 2008.06.25, 06:31:20
.....
===========
Anyway, LANTRAN.LOG:
LT00073: FFST/2 is installed but is not started. LANTRAN.LOG is being created.
IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [11/02/01] 6.0 is loaded and operational.
IBM OS/2 LAN NETBIND


Edit: Text deleted cause it was nonsens, sorry.

Quote
SETUP.CMD reads:
rate -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lo  127.0.0.1
REM ifconfig lan0
...
REM ifconfig lan7
REM ifconfig s10
ipgate off.

================

Here I miss a line like 'dhcpstrt -i lan0' as posted above.

If you use static ip adresses like I do, then there should be lines like -
ifconfig lan0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1492
route add default 192.168.0.x   (address of your dsl router)

Of course you can use the gui tools as suggested, but you can change these things on the fly by cli too. Simply try in a command window
ifconfig lan0 192.168.0.1
and see if there is an error message like 'ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument'. If yes, I'm pretty sure your network card driver is not loaded, or could not find the card. You have to use mpts in this case to install the correct driver and bind tcpip to it.

HTH

ddan

Mark,
My LANTRAN.LOG is nearly identical to yours posted, only three lines. Skip that.

But your network card is obviously not working, somehow.

Everyone installing any version of OS/2 should have a 3COM 3C90X card to put in at least temporarily in order to avoid exactly this situation with many unknowns, and to be able to get on the net to download the right driver and tools. Also have in hand a floppy with the following files: el90x.os2, el90xio2.nif. 3COM cards have ALWAYS worked for me on a variety of systems.

I'm usually upgrading when installing. After the system is up, I install some version of NetDrive, and via FTPServer, copy everything from the old system except the system files. A Firefox installation, complete with extensions, bookmarks, passwords, and preferences, comes across in a few seconds rather than an hour or so of re-installation.

Mark Heseltine

Hi ddan,

You have twigged a memory - perhaps I did use my old 3com card to get on the net. I will try that out this weekend and see. I hope it works. This is frustrating. OS/2 has always been so simple to operate.

Thanks,

Mark


Quote from: ddan on 2008.06.26, 23:06:10
Mark,
My LANTRAN.LOG is nearly identical to yours posted, only three lines. Skip that.

But your network card is obviously not working, somehow.

Everyone installing any version of OS/2 should have a 3COM 3C90X card to put in at least temporarily in order to avoid exactly this situation with many unknowns, and to be able to get on the net to download the right driver and tools. Also have in hand a floppy with the following files: el90x.os2, el90xio2.nif. 3COM cards have ALWAYS worked for me on a variety of systems.

I'm usually upgrading when installing. After the system is up, I install some version of NetDrive, and via FTPServer, copy everything from the old system except the system files. A Firefox installation, complete with extensions, bookmarks, passwords, and preferences, comes across in a few seconds rather than an hour or so of re-installation.

RobertM

Mark,

Another option (for the Intel NIC) to try is to see if your BIOS's stats/hardware screen (the one that usually comes up right before boot with a list of devices and ports/slots - may need to be enabled in the BIOS) has a slot ID for the NIC card... if it does, then use MPTS to set the slot ID for the driver (even onboard devices usually have a slot id). That may work.

Robert


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