Long time ago, I had an orinoco card that was 802.11b that was supposed to work with DOS. Could never get it to work, eventually threw it out in frustration.
Some very good and interesting suggestions have been made. However, I believe the cheapest/easiest may be a simple wireless bridge. An old tplink wr841n can make a good bridge. For my laptop, I bought an old IOGear GWU627. (I have a handful of small bridges - that one boot the fastest) Plug it in the ethernet, usb for power, duct tape it together and there you have it: Wireless DOS with Lynx. (or links, or telnet, or ftp, ect) On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:55 PM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMO, ISA is a better option for truly vintage machines. I think if > someone combined the ideas PiModem/Wifi232, Pi Virtual Floppy [0], and > ISA8019 [2] (which is an NE2000!), then that would be the ideal. An ISA > card powered by a Pi Zero W that could emulate a Floppy/HDD/CD-ROM/DVD-ROM > and provide 1000BaseT Ethernet and/or WiFi would be a super card. Doing > BaseT or WiFi transparently in SW like Dr. Baker did showed could be done > in the Pi Virtual Floppy would be awesome. > > [0] > https://www.smbaker.com/raspberry-pi-virtual-floppy-for-isa-pc-xtat-computers > [1] https://github.com/Manawyrm/ISA8019 > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:03 PM <andrea...@tiscali.it> wrote: > >> Hi! Eric >> as for the wi-fi I have solved the problem in an empirical way: I have >> long bought >> >> a TP-Link TPL-MR3020 mini router which detects available wireless >> networks and which >> >> has an ethernet port to which I can connect my laptop . >> >> It also has the possibility to connect - on the move - an internet key. >> >> The only problem is that to configure it and to detect the networks I >> need a win or linux browser because with LINKS - which I use in dos -it is >> obviously not possible. >> >> regards >> andrea >> >> Il 18.03.2021 13:55 Eric Auer ha scritto: >> >> Hi! >> >> Am just wondering if this is the current status, or some old comment: >> "Wireless devices connected via USB can not yet be used with FreeDOS." ( >> http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/WiFi) >> >> This meant "USB dongles which serve as WiFi or Bluetooth modems >> have no DOS drivers" and is still the case as far as I know: >> >> In rare cases, DOS drivers for PCMCIA WiFi modems have existed. >> For current computers, the recommended workaround would be to >> use an external WiFi to LAN converter, as it is much easier to >> find LAN style wired network drivers for DOS. >> >> Similarily, I would expect Bluetooth to serial port converter >> modules to work reasonably well with DOS: Those tend to have a >> modem-style command system to control them and actually serial >> interfaces between microcontrollers and Bluetooth modules are >> widespread. It is slow enough to be useful even if not connected >> by for example a faster SPI bus. Of course you would still need >> a converter for RS232 signal levels. Combined products may exist. >> Also, DOS users tend to have modem command skills and dialup tools. >> >> Maybe people here could talk about their experiences with specific >> brands of WiFi LAN gateways or Bluetooth RS232 adapters in DOS :-) >> >> Regards, Eric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing >> listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> >> >> >> >> Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 30 4G hai minuti illimitati, 100 SMS e 30 Giga >> in 4G a soli 8,99€ al mese. http://tisca.li/smart30 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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