Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
It might be possible to get a PCMCIA card working, depending on the particular hardware. Most likely, you would need a set of card and socket services DOS drivers for your PCMCIA chipset and a true PCMCIA card (rather than the newer Cardbus type, which almost everyone seems to refer to as PCMCIA also). On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:52:03 -0400, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All. I have a laptop on which I would like to install Free DOS. I am, however, in some difficulty. The laptop has only one serial port built in. I am in need of two such ports. The unit has a USB port and several PCMCIA slots, but no other serial port. If I may ask, is there any external hardware which provides a serial port that I could use? Alternatively, does FreeDOS support any PCMCIA or USB modems? Thanks. Aman Singer -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
My DOSUSB driver comes with support for USB-Serial adapters. However DOSUSB does not emulate an UART and therefore will not work with many DOS communications programs. You will have to change the application program to either support the DOSUSB URB/API or use the included serdrv.sys device driver which allows to use DOS calls to communicate with the adapter. Georg Potthast -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
You don't say whether you want to run FreeDOS on the bare metal or in a VM. My suggestion would be that if you already have Windows on your laptop it's quite easy to run FreeDOS in a VM, then you can connect the USB port using Windows and set it up as COMx inside the VM, then you don't need to worry about DOS drivers for USB. If you are writing your own application I suggest using a FOSSIL driver like BNU inside the FreeDOS environment rather than re-inventing the wheel of interrupt-driven communications. Dave -Original Message- From: Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com To: freedos-user freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sun, Sep 2, 2012 9:53 pm Subject: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support Hi, All. I have a laptop on which I would like to install Free DOS. I am, however, in some difficulty. The laptop has only one serial port built in. I am in need of two such ports. The unit has a USB port and several PCMCIA slots, but no other serial port. If I may ask, is there any external hardware which provides a serial port that I could use? Alternatively, does FreeDOS support any PCMCIA or USB modems? Thanks. Aman Singer -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
Hi, All. I have a laptop on which I would like to install Free DOS. I am, however, in some difficulty. The laptop has only one serial port built in. I am in need of two such ports. The unit has a USB port and several PCMCIA slots, but no other serial port. If I may ask, is there any external hardware which provides a serial port that I could use? Alternatively, does FreeDOS support any PCMCIA or USB modems? Thanks. Aman Singer -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
You can buy a USB-to-serial adapter that plugs into your USB port and provides a serial port. I don't know if FreeDOS provides drivers to support USB-to-serial adapters but they exist. There are online stores that sell these adapters in great variety -- the chipsets used to support them vary, and at least one online store will identify the chipset for each of the adapters sold. Again, and to be clear...I do not know if FreeDOS supports these adapters. Bob Cochran On 9/2/12 10:52 PM, Aman Singer wrote: Hi, All. I have a laptop on which I would like to install Free DOS. I am, however, in some difficulty. The laptop has only one serial port built in. I am in need of two such ports. The unit has a USB port and several PCMCIA slots, but no other serial port. If I may ask, is there any external hardware which provides a serial port that I could use? Alternatively, does FreeDOS support any PCMCIA or USB modems? Thanks. Aman Singer -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support
Adding to Mr. Cochran's remarks, the USB to serial porthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_portusually is a 9-pin like the ones provided on the IBM PC AT. The Wikipedia article Serial Port http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port has a picture of a USB dongle. It is a good source for background information. Dongles usually requires a Windoze software driver to make it usable as a serial port. There would be a need for it to have a similar software driver for FreeDOS. That last statement is where the issue sits. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote: You can buy a USB-to-serial adapter that plugs into your USB port and provides a serial port. I don't know if FreeDOS provides drivers to support USB-to-serial adapters but they exist. There are online stores that sell these adapters in great variety -- the chipsets used to support them vary, and at least one online store will identify the chipset for each of the adapters sold. Again, and to be clear...I do not know if FreeDOS supports these adapters. Bob Cochran On 9/2/12 10:52 PM, Aman Singer wrote: Hi, All. I have a laptop on which I would like to install Free DOS. I am, however, in some difficulty. The laptop has only one serial port built in. I am in need of two such ports. The unit has a USB port and several PCMCIA slots, but no other serial port. If I may ask, is there any external hardware which provides a serial port that I could use? Alternatively, does FreeDOS support any PCMCIA or USB modems? Thanks. Aman Singer -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
