I am trying to use the a 3 Com 10/100 Mini-PCI card in a Dell Latitude C600 laptop to connect to a NetWare Server running 4.11. When I load the LSL, 3C556, IPXODI and VLM, it does not connect me to the server. The message "You are attached to server " does not appear, and you are returned to the drive from which the VLMs were launched. I am using the following versions of the client software. LSL.COM version 2.20 (960401) IPXODI.COM version 3.03 VLM.EXE version 1.21 3C556.COM version 1.00 Regards Alipatsa.

Check your NET.CFG file for the proper configuration of your network parameters (Ethernet frame type, etc.) Another solution would be to upgrade the OS on that laptop to Windows instead of DOS. If you are using Windows then your biggest problem is that you are attempting to use DOS-level drivers with it - which won't work. You would need to install the proper Windows driver for that NIC, then add the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol and then install the Microsoft-supplied Client for NetWare Networks. Once that is running (you still won't be able to log in because the Microsoft-supplied Client for NetWare Networks does not support NDS unless you add another service, but we don't need to because...) you will need to install the Novell-supplied NetWare Client. The current versions are 3.30 for Windows9x/ME and 4.80 for NT/2000. When you install the Novell Client - it will automatically remove the Microsoft-supplied Client for NetWare Networks and give you full NDS capabilities. I recommend installing the NetWare Client in Custom mode and then selecting IPX only for the protocols (since you are using NetWare 4.x which can only communicate with the NetWare Core Services using IPX) and then selecting only the Client Components (ie: NDPS, ZENworks, etc.) that you are running on your network.