Eric Auer schreef: > To find out which packet driver you need, you can use PCISLEEP > (if it is not part of your FreeDOS install, just search the web) > to get a list of PCI / AGP / PCIe / onboard-PCI devices in your > PC. Look at the devices in the "network" category. You can search > the web for the device ID, but often you can already guess the > type from the number. A nice lookup service is the PCI IDs page: > http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/?i=10ec8139 for example tells you that > device 10ec:8139 is RTL-8139. The subsystem ID would show you > which brand of RTL8139 based device you have, but this makes no > difference for the choice of driver: All RTL8139 should work > with the classic RTSPKT 100mbit driver which can be found in > various collections like the Sioux one mentioned by Fabien. > I think you wrote me a tool called BERNDPCI or something, Eric? I never got around to using it. Anyway, PCISLEEP isn't as extended as PCIscan listed at http://www.nu2.nu/utils/#pciscan Nor does it support the huge PCI textfile database at http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm
Current FreeDOS setup batchfiles by Blair for loading correct packet driver are a lot of lines of: "rem PCI card with PCI DEVICE ID 12:34, load XYZ.COM" "if [PCI-ID] == [12:34] then load packet driver XYZ.COM" > As Fabien said, the settings for your home LAN go into wattcp.cfg, > but you can often get things working with a very simple wattcp.cfg > which only says "use DHCP", more or less. There are explanations > about which variables can be set and to which values inside the > default wattcp.cfg file :-). > DHCP is a nightmare under DOS somehow, many complaints arrived as FreeDOS installation used this by default and then appears to hang. No idea why a simple ADSL-router wont cooperate with this DHCP thing. >> I don't want to have to reinstall Freedos just for the new hardware. >> You'd never need to reinstall FreeDOS. You can just place driver files anywhere you like, then make a reference to them in config.sys or autoexec.bat > relevant settings to your FreeDOS box :-). If you cannot > find config in files, you can still do "mem /d /p" or use > similar tools to find out which drivers got loaded :-). > "MEM /C /N" I've always preferred :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
