Hi Michael, > I picked up a packet driver for the D845PEBT2 built in nic, but > whether it's wget or lynx, trying to execute the application simply > causes the computer to reset.
Maybe it helps to tell emm386 to not use any UMB, or maybe it helps to load no emm386 at all? As you say you are using netboot - it can be that you simply must not access the net card from netboot and from DOS drivers at the same time. In that case, it might help to first copy everything to ramdisk and run DOS there, to make sure that the netboot file access is not active / busy while you run networked DOS apps... > Microsoft client is what I need, but there are no free ndis > drivers for my built in Intel nic. Does msclient need ndis? I believe there are wrappers which turn ndis or odi drivers into packet drivers or the other way round... > Would someone pretty please replace Microsoft client with > something that works with crynwr style packet drivers? What you can try is the DOS port of SMBCLIENT. It is only a "command line ftp client" user experience but it should be enough to copy all the files that you need from the network to a ramdisk. I am not aware of tools / drivers which can run in the background and access SMB shares in DOS. Apart from MS Client, of course. > When I say network booted dos I mean that I'm actually loading it off > of a tftp server. > > Microsoft Client 3.0 doesn't seem that complex. Then I wonder why it uses such extreme amounts of RAM ;-) > I'm surprised the makers of Samba haven't looked into producing > an open source more up to date freedos compatible alternative. As said above - somebody already compiled a DOS version of the Samba smbclient. The problem is that a "running in the background network drive driver" needs to be very DOS specific while the "mount a Samba drive in Linux" driver is very Linux specific so you cannot easily make a DOS version from the Linux driver... Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
