Hi Buzzer, > Could anyone advice me best network adapter which are able to > work under FreeDOS?
I installed RTL-8139 network adapters on four FreeDOS computers to run a DataPerfect database, and they have been faultlessly working 12 hours every day for over a year now. I also use such cards on two computers at home without problems. However, not every RTL-8139 card seems to work with FreeDOS. There have been reports of non-genuine RTL-8139 chips, but I do not know whether this is the reason why some work and some don't. To find out whether a particular RTL-8139 works, I run NSSI -- Navrátil Software System Information, http://www.navsoft.cz. It has been my experience that if NSSI correctly reports the network card, then it will work with FreeDOS. Conversely, I have never been able to make a network driver work with FreeDOS if it was not identified by NSSI, even if it had been previously tested and approved on other computers. I also tried hardware identifiers other than NSSI, but they were not as reliable for this purpose. Marcos -------------------------------- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Sao Paulo, Brazil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
