Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:21947 comp.os.vms:10630 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!gp From: gp@stl.stc.co.uk (Gerald Pearse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.vms Subject: Installation of DECNET DOS on pc's Message-ID: <882@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 6 Dec 88 18:35:37 GMT Lines: 39 Our PC hardware consists of a 1) TANDON 286 pc 2) 3c501 - 3com Ethernet card 3) Video Seven VGA card After installing DECNET DOS on the PC, when the machine is rebooted the machine just hangs. After contacting DEC software support I eventually found out that DECNET DOS does not work with the VGA cards. When I replaced the VGA card with an earlier VIDEO SEVERN Deluxe Card (the card that does EGA emulation but NOT VGA emulation) DECNET DOS comes up OK. And I can communicate with the VMS/VAX OK. Question: 1) Does anyone know of a work around to get the VGA card working with DECNET DOS. As there must be a difference in the way VIDEO SEVERN guys, have done the VGA card, and the earlier EGA card. Any ideas to the difference between the cards, as I may be able to frig the 3COM card. 2) With DECNET DOS operational with the EGA card installed, the responce is very 'lumpy'. DEC suggest changing several of the NCP EXECUTER characteristics but these have not made any noticeable change. The response is so bad that a serial line from another PC running DECNET DOS produce greater throughput. The lumpy response shows up in interactive use and on NFT file transfers. Unless this can be improved we will use the serial ports as they are faster !!!! Any help on these matters would be appreciated... Regards Gerald A Pearse