L.D wrote:
>In order to run ns I have to load winsock ... After I exit, Arachne
>then refuses to recognize TCP/IP connection exists.
>
>Short of reloading the driver [which ends up loading low], is there a
>way to make Arachne see that it's still in place?
You have a cable-modem, right? Then you are using a network card (Glenns
answer isn't correct) and not a modem.
Anyway, exactly what do you do? I also run on a NIC (although I end up
sending/receiving through a 33k6 modem). My c:\dos\int.bat file looks like
this:
@echo off
c:\dos\mem/c|c:\dos\find "WINPKT">nul
if not errorlevel 1 goto end
lh c:\dos\pcipkt.com 0x60
lh c:\dos\winpkt.com 0x60
:end
c:\dos\win.bat
First (well, secondly) I check to see if I've already loaded the winpkt
driver, this can't be done with pre 6.x versions of MS-DOS (like that
anyway, there are ways around it without using any external, to DOS,
utility). The driver was BTW rather easy to find for me, IIRC you wrote
earlier that you had problems finding it. Anyway, I then load my
packetdriver (pcipkt.com) and then the windows driver from Trumpet
(winpkt.com).
I can use all DOS WatTCP programs after running Windows without any
problem. The only problem I've encountered is that I can't remove
winpkt.com from memory (although mark and release probably would work) but
since it's fairly small (2560 bytes) it doesn't matter much.
What version of Trumpet are you using? I'm using 2.1f which has worked good
for me. Many others have complained that they needed to write complicated
scripts to it when they switched ISPs. I've never needed to do that so I
really don't know much of the program. All I know is that it works 100%
reliable, so I can't help with anything more specific about it.
Are you using fixed IP or (real) BOOTP/DHCP?
And just to make sure noone wonders here's c:\dos\win.bat:
@echo off
c:\dos\chngdate.exe -10
c:\win4\win.com %1
del c:\win4\reg.dat>nul
del c:\win4\dosapp.ini>nul
del o:\eudora\eudora.log>nul
c:\dos\chngdate.exe +10
cls
Hmm... I better change it, I've got Eudora installed on C: now.
//Bernie
