Am 19.07.2010 02:03, schrieb Garrison Ricketson: > The Laptop aspire series AOA150 Nicscan results: bus: 2 device: 0 > Function: 0 PCI vendor: 10EC = Realtek Semiconductor Co.LTD PCI > device; RTL010E PCI Express Fast Eternet controller is what the > laptop says and when FreeDos starts, it say failed,: to install > Packet driver (CRYNWR)....
The Acer Aspire One A150 netbook seems to have a Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller. Although they are for different chips I first would try out the two packet drivers for Realtek at Georg Potthasts site: For RTL8029: <http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/pktdrv/pcipkt.zip> and for RTL8139 <http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/pktdrv/rtspkt.zip> Unzip them and start them with: PCIPKT 0x60 or RTSPKT 0x60 If they work, fine! :-) If they don't work, try to use Realteks drivers from here: <http://www.realtek.com/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false> In the Novell section get the: Novell client for DOS (ODI driver) Now we try to use this ODI driver as a packet driver. To do so, we first need another two files. ODIPKT.COM and LSL.COM. ODIPKT.COM can be found inside of this package: <ftp://ftp.danlan.com/ftp.danlan.com/pdr_shim/odipkt/odipkt.zip> and LSL.COM inside of this one (in the directory NIOS): <http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/dw271e.zip> To make things easier for you I have already extracted them and put them on my server: <http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/files/odipkt.com> <http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/files/LSL.COM> Now we take a look at the package that we downloaded from Realtek. It is called NWODI134_8136.zip Inside are: RTEODI.COM -- The ODI driver NET.CFG -- The configuration file Extract the two files. Change the configuration file NET.CFG to have only the following lines: ; -------------------------------------------------------- Link Support Max Stacks 8 buffers 8 1600 Link Driver rteodi ;NICNo 1 Frame Ethernet_II MEDIUM AUTO ; -------------------------------------------------------- Now we try to get the whole thing up and running: I assume you put all four files in one directory C:\NETDRV on the laptop. Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT: LH C:\NETDRV\LSL.COM /C C:\NETDRV\NET.CFG LH C:\NETDRV\RTEODI.COM LH C:\NETDRV\ODIPKT.COM 0 96 Reboot. If all went well, the boot messages tell you, your network driver has been successfully loaded and "ODIPKT is installed and ready". In the next step you can install DOS network programs like NTOOL or others on the netbook. If it didn't work we can try something else. >> you may have connected the two computers with a parallel >> cable and used a software like laplink to connect them. > I got looking close at the laptop, the only socket, that looks like > it could be, is described in the manual, as only for a > screen(VGA)...and it dose work for that. Could it work? No. The Acer netbook doesn't have a parallel or serial socket. So this won't work. >> Which network cards exactly are you using? > On The big computer,I need to check and see > what card it uses,I dont have it handy, as I am in a internet cafe > right now When you say Cross over, is that the one that uses RJ8,(i > think), it is like what I call "phone jack", anyway it is what > normally would go to a modem....sorry I am so ignorant on > terminolgy(names)... When I try what the cross over cable(phone > jack) type,...I suspect it cannot work as because probley the big > computer dose not have a eternet card,it is older, if connected to > a modem, with the card ..probley it would work. The ethernet socket looks a bit like the socket for a phone or modem adapter, but it is slightly bigger. If the big computer doesn't have a network card, you can not use a crossover cable to connect it to the Acer netbook. Maybe you can get one for it, they should be really cheap by now. regards Uli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
