Calling all WinXP gurus. Help!

[Allen H]

Hi everyone,

We still use the old WANG systems at my company. The problem I have is we
are TRYING to upgrade all our computers from Win98SE to WinXP. We have a 16
bit application for terminal emulation and a 16 bit ISA card that connects
via a coaxle able to the WANG systems (Mini-Mainframe).

THE PROBLEM IS:

For the emulation software to see the ISA card we must make insertions into
the config.SYS file in Win98. With WinXP I tried making the same insertions
in the config.NT file, but whenever I launch the emulation software it
brings up the usual dos box and says "WANG CARD CAN NOT BE FOUND". Any
Ideas?


The values we add to the config.sys files are:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
BUFFERS=60
FILES=150
DOS=HIGH, UMB

Reading the instructions in the config.NT file, I know there are some
changes to this, but for some reason I can't get it, or I might be messing
with the wrong file. Any Help would be appreciated.

Allen

 

[Chris Holden]

Hi everyone,

We still use the old WANG systems at my company. The problem I have is we
are TRYING to upgrade all our computers from Win98SE to WinXP. We have a 16
bit application for terminal emulation and a 16 bit ISA card that connects
via a coaxle able to the WANG systems (Mini-Mainframe).

THE PROBLEM IS:

For the emulation software to see the ISA card we must make insertions into
the config.SYS file in Win98. With WinXP I tried making the same insertions
in the config.NT file, but whenever I launch the emulation software it
brings up the usual dos box and says "WANG CARD CAN NOT BE FOUND". Any
Ideas?


The values we add to the config.sys files are:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
BUFFERS=60
FILES=150
DOS=HIGH, UMB

Reading the instructions in the config.NT file, I know there are some
changes to this, but for some reason I can't get it, or I might be messing
with the wrong file. Any Help would be appreciated.

Allen

I think you misunderstand the error message. The Wang card cannot be found
by WinnXP (if I'm reading you right). Check in the device managger - is the
Wang card there and reported as fuctioning normally?
No? That's your problem. You need a driver for it that Win XP can
understand.
Does it have to be a Wang card, or will any thin ethernet card do?
Chris

 

[Chris Holden]

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I think you misunderstand the error message. The Wang card cannot be found
by WinnXP (if I'm reading you right). Check in the device managger - is the
Wang card there and reported as fuctioning normally?
No? That's your problem. You need a driver for it that Win XP can
understand.
Does it have to be a Wang card, or will any thin ethernet card do?
Chris

Sorry, I don't think I made what I meant too clear in that post. XP must be
able to drive the Wang card for the emulation to work. The emmulation
software has to communicate with XP to use any devices (it will not be
allowed any direct access for system stability reasons) - XP does the actual
communicationg, sort of acting as a go-between for the 16-bit app and the
NIC.
Chris