[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-16 kl. 17:25, skrev johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk:
> On Sunday, 16 June 2019 12:15:17 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Söderholm  wrote:
>> A few quick notes from first startup.
>>
>> As noted before, the download was a but slower than exepected.
>> No big deal with that...
>>
>>   From start of the downloaded EXE installer to having an logged
>> in OpenVMS envrionment it took maybe 2-3 minutes.
>>
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Then I tried to setup the network interface. Followed the "Getting
>> Started" PDF manual (that is upacked into the install directory)
>> and used the "Virtual Alpha Configuration Utility".
>>
>> Now, when trying to select a "network card" to pci11, I just get
>> "Invalid adapter: ask" besides of "Dummy network" as Interface
>> options.
>>
> 
> [little snip]
> 
>> So, my remaining issue now is that I cannot select one of my laptop
>> network interfaces in my setup.
>>
>> Next step would be to check my pile of unused laptops and try
>> one of those...
>>
>> Jan-Erik.
> 
> In the absence of other suggestions, and in the likely absence
> of me having enough time to look into this in the near future
> though I'd very much like to have a chance before too long,
> the place I'd probably start looking for the network issues (if
> I had time) is whatever flavour of winpcap/ipcap/etc is in use
> on the Windows system in question.
> 
> More specifically, the software/OS interface between FreeAXP/Avanti
> and whichever packet capture facility it uses to get access to its
> host's network.
> 
> It's even referenced in various official and unoffical docs for
> Avanti/FreeAXP.
> 
> No guarantees. However applications such as Wireshark which use
> similar mechanisms to implement their packet capture facilities
> have been affected by similar problems too.
> 
> Best of luck,
> John Wallace
> 

Yes, it says in the Avanto papers that later WinPcap has conflicts
with the packed driver from Avanti.

I just checked again, and the "MSI Network Driver" is enabled in the
istallation application. It also says "Needed for network access" so
i left it enabled...

I have now spent some time on checking if I have any other PCAP such
as WinPcap running. And I simply doesn't know how to check that...

I can see the "VirtualBox Host-Only network adapter" is enabled. Maybe
that is also some kind of packet capture tool (?).

I have never had WireShark on his machine.