Am 14.08.11 21:43, schrieb julio cortese: > You understood well, but i already have some drivers for the ethernet card, > and the question is: as they are for win32 will they work on freedos? what > kind of extension do they should have and, how do i install a driver?.
Okay, you have a Atheros L2 nic. Congrats! Thanks to the great guys at <http://netbootdisk.com/> we have a working NDIS driver for that. I already extracted it for you to this place: <http://lazybrowndog.net/ATL2> So please download the driver. We will make it act like a packet driver in FreeDOS. If you like to understand what you are doing, please read my description of how to get NDIS drivers to work with DOS at: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS_-_NDIS_driver_installation> In short just follow these instructions: 1. Make a directory C:\NET 2. Copy the downloaded file L2.DOS into C:\NET 3. Get the first disk of the free MS Client from Microsoft: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT/DSK3-1.EXE 4. Save the file DSK3-1.exe to an empty directory for instance: C:\TEST 5. Run DSK3-1.exe. It will unzip all the files into the empty folder C:\TEST. 6. Two of the files needed are still compressed. Uncompress them by running these two commands inside C:\TEST: expand -r protman.do_ expand -r protman.ex_ 7. Copy the three files protman.dos, protman.exe and netbind.com from C:\TEST to C:\NET. Afterwards you may delete C:\TEST. 8. Create a file with the name PROTOCOL.INI inside the C:\NET directory. Edit it and fill in the following lines: [protman] DriverName=PROTMAN$ [ATL2] DriverName=ATL2$ [PKTDRV] drivername=PKTDRV$ bindings=ATL2 intvec=0x60 chainvec=0x68 9. Add these lines to the end of your fdconfig.sys: DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\NET DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\L2.DOS DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\DIS_PKT.DOS 10. Add this line to your autoexec.bat: C:\NET\NETBIND.COM 11. Reboot. You should now have a working packet driver for your nic. Ulrich PS: Loading the above ndis/packet driver shim consumes of course more memory than a native packet driver. Unfortunately I couldn't find such a native packet driver for the Atheros L2. You might want to search yourself to be sure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
