I belive I just made the init ‘ATZ’ since there really isn’t a modem to init anyways, and emulation is pretty basic.

How did you get past the PCBModem configurations? Every time I try to setup my modem, regardless of how I do it, I end up getting errors on AT&FE1.

I don’t kow what it is, I just went through and tried every option and found this by accident. I guess I should update it to virtualbox + vmware.

Oh wow, yeah that was the same issue for me as well. I changed the “PermaNet server” to TRUE and boom… I can ping the rest of my network. Amazing!

I think there may be some unoffical update to 2.1 that didn’t get a version bump, but added some better PCI support… I went through some serious hell to get OS/2 to work on VMWare ESXi, and it ended up being the intel network driver had to be configured incorrectly for it to work.

That adventure was way back here.

Good to see that 1.6 is working for you as well, it seemed to be the best of the lot. It’s too bad I didn’t know about vmodem functionality otherwise I’d have registered SIO a long long time ago, but I only found out after playing with OS/2 BBS in a QEMU VM on a VPS… Ray Guinn either passed or disappeared from the world.

Well, I installed OS/2 2.1 and ran the updates, installed TCP/IP, plus the updates, located a device driver for VirtualBox’s emulated NICs, and everything was rocking along perfectly until it came to the TCP/IP config and despite spending all the evening fooling with it, I could not make it ping any of the other machines on my network.

So, with that failure, on a whim I tried your SIO 1.6 drivers in Warp 4. Bingo! PCBoard isn’t lagging anymore, user input is as smooth as my Mystic setup on the Raspberry Pi, everything is silky smooth!

I’m glad that’s worked out, but now I really want to figure out why 2.1’s networking was being such a pain. It is a lean, stripped down OS and I’d love to make it function properly!

Thanks again for your help and the links! This has been a lot of fun.

This is very helpful! Thanks so much. I’m going to take a crack at it!

I’m using SIO 1.6d, and I’ve put links all on bbs.superglobalmegacorp.com.

Oh man, thanks for that info. That’s valuable to know. I may try rolling back some versions to see what happens. I tried to fire up Warp 4 in QEMU and it started to launch, but ultimately crashed. Ack! I see what you mean!

I’m using QEMU, and a much older version of SIO. I am 100% unsure if newer is going to be better though. I had issues with the newer versions of OS/2 being really laggy and considering the only thing I needed OS/2 for was to run MS-DOS stuff, so 2.00 was good enough for me.

That said, I’m using Qemu version 0.15.1 I have found the newer versions of Qemu aren’t quite as adept at emulating OS/2, and the fixes for going from GCC 3 to GCC 4 killed a lot of compatibility, just as going from GCC 4 to 5 killed an incredible amount of speed.