JK>-> JK> making PCBoard talk telnet is the missing link.   
      
   JK>-> on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement   
   JK>-> comms package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...   
      
   JK>In the sio2k docs, Ray says Warp server ebiz fails when using serial   
   JK>ports and IRQ 3.  I also read that the server and client code base   
   JK>was merged as of fixpak 13.   
      
   JK>So I installed Warp 4, fixpak 9, and sio2k.  I use a 2 port serial   
   JK>PCI card on IRQ 3. I can start a file transfer but it stalls and   
   JK>dies. So much for sio2k.   
      
   JK>Then I read that MCP2 has new serial drivers from IBM that support   
   JK>PCI serial cards with IRQ sharing. So I tried MCP 2.  Also stalls and   
   JK>dies. Must be true about the problem with IRQ 3.  And the MCP2 peer   
   JK>networking fails when you disconnect a share and try to reconnect it.   
   JK>At least that worked right on WARP 4.   
      
   JK>There are some post MCP2 fixpaks, but google turns up no download   
   JK>sites for them.  Apparently the only way to get them is from the ECS   
   JK>website, and for that you must be a paying customer.   
      
   JK>I hadn't looked at OS/2 since the early 1990s, and I was hoping it   
   JK>had improved with age. But it's as frustrating now as it was then.   
      
   I am running Warp 3 Connect, under VMworkstation with SIO.  It took me    
   the better part of 8 hours to get OS/2 to load and run under    
   VMworkstation but now it is solid.  It means I never have to worry about    
   hardware again.     
      
   Right now I have a Windows 2008R2 server as the host OS running    
   instances of OS/2, Windows 2003R2 server, Linux Slackware 14.0, Windows    
   7, a Juniper SSL VPN appliance VM and more.   
      
      
   Jeff   
      
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