To: Ignored@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) From: Ignored@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: Ignored@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Sender: Ignored@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@falcon3.k9.com Return-Path: Ignored@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V8 : I70 Falcon3 Digest Volume 8 : Issue 70 Sun Jan 21 20:23:42 PST 1996 Compilation copyright (C) 1995 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@falcon3.k9.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@falcon3.k9.com" Archives are available via ftp from cactus.org Today's Topics: Falcon using Network Cards Myron_Johnson-R17869@email.sps.mot. New Falcon Hack Bill White <74650.746@compuserve.co Threat Warning Indicator question "Stephanie Swaim" >Okay, we have given up trying to link up via serial ports >>and null modem cable. Now I will try to "net" it. Good choice, Michael. If you can get your computers within cable distance, the network is MUCH faster than any serial link. You need the following: Ethernet cards with coax cable, tees, and terminators (use Tee at each computer, use a terminator at each end of the network). Either: The driver IPX.COM, optimized for YOUR PARTICULAR network card settings (interrupt, I/O Port, DMA setting, etc.) OR The drivers LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM, and the card-specific driver that you got with the network card, usually called something like NE2000.COM or 3C5x9.COM). Oh, and you will need to create a NET.CFG file that corresponds (and matches the settings of) your network card. NE2000.COM will search for that and modify itself according to the NET.CFG settings so that it can work with the network card. The first, single driver IPX.COM is MUCH preferable, because it is faster, and because you will never get more than two computers to work on a Falcon3 network using the three-driver solution. The problem with the IPX.COM driver is that IPX.COM usually doesn't come with the cards. It is an obsolete Netware driver replaced several years ago by the three-driver system (called ODI drivers). To create a proper IPX.COM program you need to generate the IPX.COM file using a Netware utility called WSGEN.EXE. This can be hard to find. Or, you need a friend with the program and knowledge. You also need appropriate information files that WSGEN uses to create the driver (these files usually come with the network card). Also, my version of WSGEN only reads files from a floppy disk. If you have 3COM Etherlink III cards, you are in luck, because there is only one version of IPX.COM and the card self-configures itself to work. Other recent ethernet cards may do the same...I don't know. IPX.COM can be loaded high. It can't be unloaded...you have to reboot the computer. The ODI drivers can be unloaded by running the drivers in reverse order (IPXODI.COM, NE2000.COM, LSL.COM) using the /u parameter with each. Good luck. Ethernet Falcon links are cool, but, as you can see, present their own problem...just like serial links! BTW, I find that running some simple serial file transfer program, such as Laplink 1.0, is a fast way to check out serial ports and cables. If you can't get laplink to work between two computers, you can be sure that Falcon won't, either! Myron Johnson mjohnson@indirect.com ------------------------------- From: Bill White <74650.746@compuserve.com> Subject: New Falcon Hack All, I've just placed small hack/utility on the Flying Muffin web page that will remove the opening screens from Falcon/MiG/Hornet. It's called NOSCRN and you can download it from the "News" section right on the main page. This should speed up swapping in and out of the sims when using other utilities. The web site is at http://www.cris.com/~Flymuff. -Bill White ------------------------------- From: "Stephanie Swaim" Subject: Threat Warning Indicator question Hi There :), I'm new to this mailing list... I've been subscribed for several days, but haven't got any mail, is this list very inactive? Ok I do have a falcon question... have had Falcon for years and every year or so try to get into it, only to be frustrated to death by SAM's. Spend the whole flight avoiding Sam's and eventually they get me... anyway I found the Usenet guide to Falcon and it is a big help, I'll try using some techniques I saw there... My question now is about the Threat Warning Indicator... in my manual it says that the large boxes denoting ground radar installations, that they can have a 1 in them for CW or a 2 for Pulse Doppler. But it says nothing about a large box with a number 3 in it. I see these all the time... am wondering what the 3 denotes? I probably just overlooking something in the manual, but I sure can't find it... thanks for any answer, Stephanie bhmirage@mich.com ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 8 : Issue 70 ]]