IPXSETUP problem (sendPacket) on Win XP machine for Doom 2 multiplay

[swin70]

Hi,

This is a wild stab in the dark to see if someone can help. The kids love to
playing Doom 2 between two computers on our home LAN and did so for a while. Now though when then they run IPXSETUP on the newer Win XP machine, we get the following : -

Communicating with interrupt vector 0x62
Attempting to find all players for 2 player net play. Press ESC to exit.
Looking for a node.SendPacket: 0x60

(The last Hex number is sometimes different.)


At this point the IPXSETUP command ceases instead of continuing the seaching process. However, if the second machine happens to be running IPXSETUP at the same time, it seems to register the fact that a node is found, but then continues to search as of course the first IPXSETUP has crashed.

I'm guessing that there is a problem in sending another IPX packet that causes IPXSETUP to crash. Although I'm up on TCP/IP, I have no idea about IPX problems.

Has anyone got a clue on where to start??

Chris

[swin70]

Just to try things up I thought I'd run IPXSETUP on my machine that also runs Win XP. I Installed IPX on the LAN connection and ran IPXSET. However all I get is this : -

C:\>ipxsetup

-------------------------------
DOOM NETWORK DEVICE DRIVER v1.1
-------------------------------
IPX not detected


This actuallly used to hapen on the other WIn XP machine, but after uninstalling the network adapters etc, I at least managed to get IPXSETUP to run even though it crashed. Now I'm really confused

Any help?

Chris

[karma]

hello Chris, happy new year. thought i'd throw a little bit into an old thread.

i played around with xp network settings (installed netware client), and i was able to get past the "ipx not detected" part, but ipxsetup still errored out with "sendpacket: 0x86" immediately after the "communicating with interrupt vector 0x60" part. i'm not sure how to get old msdos games to run over xp ipx...it'd be fun though.