At 12:43 PM 96/10/13 -0400, you wrote:
>A couple of afterthoughts:
>
>DTS LANIC path in NMCONFIG correct?

Yes, it is. In fact, I am able to VT into the system just fine. The Lanic
functionality appears to work perfectly okay.

>If DTS software missing as you suspect, SYSDIAG >TERMDSM should fail
>since the underlying code is absent.

TERMDSM works fine - except that it finds no DTC's, ports or ldevs to test.
>
>Do the ldevs appear on :showdev, or removed at boot time?

They are removed at boot time.

I should add that a different MFIO card (which includes the lanic card) was
tried and resulted in the same problems.

I've checked everything I can think of.

RDCC, validate DTS/LINK a zillion times, checked lanic hardware path, etc.,
etc.

That is why I come back to my recollections of built-in DTC
non-functionality in some systems which HP marketed several years ago. I
actually had a customer who had exactly such a system (until they switched
to a completely different system ).

I think the limitation is somehow embedded in non-volatile memory,  which
probably requires a special tape (with password) to remove - just as with
the user-limit variable.

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