Problems getting spx to work (1.2rc1)

[Peter Eckhardt <peter@dadi-linux.de>]

Hi,

i am new to dosemu so forgive my question ....

After not having touched dos for a decade or so i am back :-)

At a client side we need access to a clipper app which uses
an spx based transaction server. The server runs netware 4.01
the client is linux. Shouldn't be a problem using dosemu ...

I installed the dos emu rpm. Fired it up and it ran. Using the 
redirector we could access the server just fine until we discovered
there is no spx ....

After some googling the natural way seems to get rid of freedos and 
replace it with drdos. Then use a packet driver. No problem I thought.
After a two hour fight I got drdos up and running, got the nwclient,
installed pdether, turned off ipx support in .dosemurc and turned
the packet driver on. Configured startnet.bat and net.cfg.

Fired the whole thing up and got that

[DR-DOS] C:\NWCLIENT>C:\NWCLIENT\PDETHER.EXE
Ethernet Packet Driver MLID, v1.01, built Nov 01 1991 at 16:30:31
WARNING: Could not add protocol 'IPX', ID 8137 hex.
    Packet Driver Error: Bad type.
FATAL: Could not read MAC address from Packet Driver.
    Reason: No protocols connected to Packet Driver.

Net.cfg is cut and pasted from Lauri Tischlers example. Startnet.bat
simply loads the drivers.

These are my network settings in .dosemurc

# If enabled, the internal IPX.COM compatible driver will be used.

$_ipxsupport = (off)

# If this is enabled, a network packet driver interface will be present.

$_pktdriver = (on)

# If enabled, the packet driver will translate Novell 8137 packets to 
raw 802.3
# frames.

$_novell_hack = (off)

# If using a packet driver interface, this is the operating system's network
# interface that will be used.

$_netdev = "eth0"

# This setting is for tunneling DOS network traffic through the host 
operating
# system.  If using dosnet, set this to "dosnet", if using TUN/TAP set 
this to
# "tap".  This setting overrides the "netdev" setting.

$_vnet = ""



Anyone has a clue ?

Brgds
Peter

BTW. it sometimes eats my net.cfg ....

BTW. Is there a way I can convert an image to a directory as with the
      freedos setup of my linux distro (suse) ?
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