[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

Jan-Erik Söderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Sat Jul 13 00:30:07 EDT 2019


Den 2019-06-20 kl. 16:59, skrev dsundqvist1 at gmail.com:
> Den torsdag 20 juni 2019 kl. 01:12:08 UTC+2 skrev Alan Greig:
>> Sorry I haven't read the full thread but can anyone get networking up
>> with this?
>> 
>> I tried running the config manager and adding a NIC but get an error
>> when trying to save the config saying the logfile is invalid. After
>> manually editing the .cfg  to add absolute paths I was able to add a
>> NIC (well at least "ask" but on startup I got an error that the
>> network config was invalid.
>> 
>> I'm assuming the package as supplied is broken (at least as far as
>> initial setup) but is there a way to get it to work or should I just
>> give up and find some other emulation?
> 
> I had the same problem that the network interface didn't get recognized
> by FreeAXP. Then I found this thread:
> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=20&sid=2a6b780c6d64c6c2037a9bdfcef6a84a
>
>  I just uninstalled the VSI package, installed FreeAXP 3.0.0.620 and now
> my NIC is recognized and VMS has booted with the data files from the VSI
> package.
> 
> Havn't tried to configure the network yet though.
> 

So you followed the the advice in the last post in that thread?

- Deinstall the VSI kit.
- Install FreeAXP 3.0 (that will find the NICs) from
http://www.migrationspecialties.com/FreeAXP.html.
- Reinstall the VSI kit (that will retain the NICs found above)

Is that correct?




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