On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 23:10 -0300, Alain Mouette wrote: > I completly disagree. > > Just today I installed FreeDOS on a brand new Asus board with SATA2 a > gigabit ethernet chip. > > Simple: go to www.netbootdisk.com and create a floppy. After it boots > and detects the NIC, copy it's driver including packet driver. Easy... > > The truth is that if you have an application that is worth using with > FreeDOS, drivers exist :) > > And it is damn fast > > Alain
Command line Linux tuned properly is also fast where Linux supports more network cards than Freedos does. Another problem, how did you find out that there is a driver for your particular card? For Linux users, the kernel supports a lot of network cards straight off. Does Freedos support common nics such as: Netgear Fa311/Fa312? Thuderlan dual port 10/100 nics? AOpen nics? Tulip nics? Other nics? I stand by my statement that TCP/IP and DOS are probably not the best combination. DOS does not protect the hardware from programs that execute, because it can't. DOS cannot stop viruses/worms very easily because it doesn't shield the hardware in the first place. This is all the more reason to avoid connecting to global networks from a DOS based environment. How about DOSbox, Virtualbox, and VMWARE nics? Can Freedos use any virtual NICS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
