Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nicholas La Frenais <"lanic "@ hotmail.com> Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Problems with SIOCONS Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 16:22:49 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 50 Message-ID: <5i36aj$51e1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: lanic, @, hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.216.35.89 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) I am having a problem with the SIOCONS program where I cannot down load the to my Net Yaroze under Windows 95. I am using the following as my development PC. * Compaq Contura 430CX notebook. * 16 Mb RAM * Windows 95 (using 32 bit FAT file system) * Internal track ball * 2 PCMCIA slots (1. used by Creative Labs external CD-ROM; 2. used by Xircom Credit Card Ethernet+Modem 28.8) * I have set the "Idle sensitivty" to low for my MS DOS box. What I am experiencing / tried ============================== Under 95 the COM1 is set to IRQ - 4 Addr = 0x3F8. 95 Thinks that it is all okay If I try to start using SIOCONS using the above COM port setup the I usually get part (if any) of the messages from SIOCONS starting up and my PC slows down dramatically. I can still move the mouse around (very slowly). Eventually I have to terminate the DOS box or reboot my PC If I use COM2 is set to IRQ - 3 Addr = 0x2F8. My pc doesn't slow down however when I try to down load I do get a message that a timeout has occured on the binary write. I expect that this is because that COM2 is configured for my PCMCIA ethernet/modem card. If I use a completely different IRQ (I have tried 15 with Addr 0x2f8) My pc doesn't slow down however when I try to down load I do get a message that a timeout has occured on the binary write. I have attached a serial mouse to my serial port and Windows95 picks it up correctly and it can be used (I'm not sure if this piece of info will help but, I did notice that both the track ball and the serial mouse work at the same time.) Finally I do not get the double right arrows (any time) when I try to start SIOCONS the function keys (e.g F3 for "auto") do respond and allow me to type in a batch file name. If I put an incorrect name in SIOCONS reports that the file could not be found other wise I get a timeout has occured on the binary write as mentioned above. Thanks in advance. Regards - Nic