TAP driver requirements?

[chennecke]

I tried to install the TAP driver. Upon reboot it complained in LANTRAN.LOG about not being able to load a message file that looked a lot like it's from the GenMAC package.

So what are the exact requirements for the TAP driver? Does the GenMAC helper daemon have to be installed? Which version of GenMAC is required?

[Yoda]

I tried to install the TAP driver. Upon reboot it complained in LANTRAN.LOG about not being able to load a message file that looked a lot like it's from the GenMAC package.

Are you sure that comes from the TAP driver ?
It doesn't come with a msg file, and I have never seen it asking
for one.

Post your lantron.log here, so we can see the msgs.

So what are the exact requirements for the TAP driver? Does the GenMAC helper daemon have to be installed? Which version of GenMAC is required?

Tap has nothing to do with GenMac besides being made by the same programmer
It doesn't really have any requirements - I have always just installed it as last NIC - and never seen it fail.

[chennecke]

lantran.log says:

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LT00073: FFST/2 ist installiert, aber nicht gestartet. LANTRAN.LOG wird erstellt.  
IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [07/21/04] 6.00 ist geladen und betriebsbereit.  
IBM - OS/2 Socket/MPTS Common Transport Semantics  
IBM OS/2 NETBEUI 6.00.0  
NETBEUI: Verwendung eines 32-Bit-Datensegments.  
IBM OS/2 TCPBEUI 6.00.0  
TCPBEUI: Verwendung eines 32-Bit-Datensegments.  
NETWKSTA.200-Version 6.0. IBM LAN Redirector ( May 25, 2005) wird installiert.  
  
IBM OS/2 NETBIOS 4.0  
Für NETBIOS-Anwendungen stehen an Adapter 0 123 NCBs, 96 Sitzungen und 6 Namen zur Verfügung.  
Für NETBIOS-Anwendungen stehen an Adapter 1 123 NCBs, 96 Sitzungen und 6 Namen zur Verfügung.  
NETBIOS 4.0 ist geladen und betriebsbereit.  
SYS0318: Nachrichtendatei GENM32M.MSG konnte für Nachricht  0000 nicht  
gefunden werden.  
SYS0318: Nachrichtendatei GENM32M.MSG konnte für Nachricht  0000 nicht  
gefunden werden.  
IBM LANVDD ist geladen und funktionsfähig.  
IBM OS/2 LAN Netbind  
SYS0318: Nachrichtendatei GENM32M.MSG konnte für Nachricht  0000 nicht  
gefunden werden.  
SYS0318: Nachrichtendatei GENM32M.MSG konnte für Nachricht  0000 nicht  
gefunden werden.  
PRO0021: Als das Programm versucht hat, eine Bindung zwischen VECTOR und NVETH_NIF herzustellen, ist ein allgemeiner Fehler aufgetreten.  
IBM - OS/2 Socket/MPTS NetBios Service Driver  
TCPBEUI: Logischer Adapter 1 versucht, eine Bindung an TCP/IP-Schnittstelle lan0 herzustellen.  
LT00141: Beim Initialisieren von TCPBEUI sind Fehler aufgetreten. 

The file GENM32M.MSG is from the GenMAC package.

[Dave Parsons]

Hi,

I have a similar problem here also and the TAP driver doesn't seem to work.
A string search of PROT.OS2 shows that it does indeed contain the GENM32 string, so the message is coming from the TAP driver and not GENMAC (which don't have).

Did you get any further with this and does the TAP driver work for you?

Dave

[chennecke]

Yes, I installed GenMac and set DPATH, so the TAP driver can find the message files in the \GENMAC\DRIVER subdirectory. Apparently, the messages were success reports. The driver loads fine. So far I have only tried NAT networking with VBox though.

There are some memory issues. Things didn't get loaded until I added EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE to CONFIG.SYS.

[Dave Parsons]

Thanks, good to know.

I'll have another try with HIF over this long weekend.

Dave