Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-24 Thread Dan Schmidt
That is a router, I can't guarantee it would work. (unless you put openwrt on it) However, this is built specifically to bridge: https://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-Universal-Ethernet-Adapter-GWU627/dp/B004UAKCS6 Takes around 20 seconds to connect, which is longer than it takes DOS to boot on my

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-24 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 24.04.2017 um 07:07 schrieb Dan Schmidt : > > Is this thread still about wireless for Dos? If not, sorry for posting. > > If so, I bought a wireless to ethernet bridge - smaller than a deck of cards, > runs on usb power - works great for my Dos machine. I tried a

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-23 Thread Dan Schmidt
Is this thread still about wireless for Dos? If not, sorry for posting. If so, I bought a wireless to ethernet bridge - smaller than a deck of cards, runs on usb power - works great for my Dos machine. I tried a wifi card that supposedly supported dos - never could get it working, threw it away

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-23 Thread Dale E Sterner
On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who worked for Corel and then sold it on Ebay for about $150. I was high bid. cheers DS On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:10:45 + "Thomas Mueller"

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3 > The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than > Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in > like TK solver. One of these days I'll find out. > cheers > DS Last Qpro version for DOS was 5. Was there a 5.6? DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
The packet driver link for dos come up FORBIDDEN. cheers DS On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:49:46 +0200 Ulrich Hansen writes: > Several years ago I wrote everything I could find out about DOS and > Wifi here: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/WiFi > > If anybody finds

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3 The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in like TK solver. One of these days I'll find out. cheers DS On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 02:35:08 + "Thomas Mueller"

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better > than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up. > Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro > to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax. > cheers > DS I too used Borland Quattro Pro for DOS, through v5, to

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-21 Thread geneb
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Dale E Sterner wrote: > The win 7 was a 32 bit copy purchased on Amazon. > The software was a dvd converter to convert dvds to mp4. > It didn't work on XP so I wanted to try it on win 7; didn't work > there either. The 1st activation was slow painful and > successful. Win 7

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-21 Thread Dale E Sterner
I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up. Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax. cheers DS On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:49:08 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-21 Thread Dale E Sterner
The win 7 was a 32 bit copy purchased on Amazon. The software was a dvd converter to convert dvds to mp4. It didn't work on XP so I wanted to try it on win 7; didn't work there either. The 1st activation was slow painful and successful. Win 7 gave warning about making changes. I followed all

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-20 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> >>> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-20 Thread Karen Lewellen
Granted I am not commenting on the exact post, too much to locate it exactly. still, speaking only for myself, I have continued to build upon and find dos solutions without having to change operating systems for almost 30 years now. My choice to think first about solutions instead of

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. >> I installed software that I bought to see what it

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-20 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. Where did you get the copy of Win7 you installed? > The laptop doesn't have an internet connection so had to use the > phone method.to Install

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-20 Thread Dale E Sterner
I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. The laptop doesn't have an internet connection so had to use the phone method.to Install it. I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on win 7. Alot of of message boxes came up giving me 24 hours to

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Microsoft has done such things deliberately. I had a Compaq server with dual > slot Xeon CPUs. XP (with a 1-2 CPU license) could be installed but no matter > what, was only going to be allowed to use ONE CPU. Manually

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Microsoft has done such things deliberately. I had a Compaq server with dual slot Xeon CPUs. XP (with a 1-2 CPU license) could be installed but no matter what, was only going to be allowed to use ONE CPU. Manually forcing the multi CPU HAL to install during setup (or after) would make it crash.

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > With windows if your PC dies and you want to move > to a dupicate and keep running - your out of luck. Not really. Been there, done that. On my old, built-from components PC, I moved XP several times. I made changes

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Dale E Sterner
With windows if your PC dies and you want to move to a dupicate and keep running - your out of luck. Windows ability to detect small changes is amazing - it just wants to stop. Win 7 is such a pain to deal with I think even DOS could beat it. Every time I install new software it wants to be

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Maybe the people who have produced the mini > also wrote some software to make it useful. Sorry, but that's wishful thinking. The HP mini wasn't issued as a DOS machine. FreeDOS was an after the fact addition on the

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Several years ago I wrote everything I could find out about DOS and Wifi here: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/WiFi If anybody finds out more about it, please give some feedback... > On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:07:35 -0400 dmccunney > writes: >> On Wed, Apr 19,

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Dale E Sterner
Maybe the people who have produced the mini also wrote some software to make it useful. I like DOS I hope it moves foreward. Windows is so single PC oriented. I've tried moving windows to a twin PC - same everything and it somehow knew it was different and didn't want to run. DOS has no such

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I see that someone on Ebay is selling an HP mini > with a FREEDOS os installed. All the HP minis that > I've seen have wifi & bluetooth built in. That would > mean an 802.11 client to do it. The ad doesn't > mention

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Dale E Sterner
I see that someone on Ebay is selling an HP mini with a FREEDOS os installed. All the HP minis that I've seen have wifi & bluetooth built in. That would mean an 802.11 client to do it. The ad doesn't mention wifi or bluetooth but every mini that I've seen has it. cheers DS On Wed, 19 Apr 2017

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:37:44 -0400, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Would you or anyone else know if there is an 802.11 client for dos? > Never heard of one but you guys know alot more than I ever will. I don't think there is such thing as a "802.11 client" - it only depends whether or not the given