Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC

2009-04-20 Thread Antony Gordon
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC > > I'm not sure why devload causes problems, shouldn't be running out of > memory (loading himem.exe and umbpci.sys), yeah, it's the MS Protocol > Manag

Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC

2007-03-26 Thread Alain M.
All packet drivers are executable, so devlçoad should not be used. All return errorlevel if not installed, All don't install if another is installed. So... you can simply try to load them all in sequence and only the good one will get installed. I have in fact tested this, give it a try :) Ala

Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC

2007-03-25 Thread Adam Smith
I'm not sure why devload causes problems, shouldn't be running out of memory (loading himem.exe and umbpci.sys), yeah, it's the MS Protocol Manager (protman.dos), a slightly modified dis_pkt.dos from the original boot disk, as well as whatever NDIS driver the card should use. All loaded with cl

Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC

2007-03-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, you should have a look at how NWDSK does the network card detection and driver loading :-). One FreeDOS way to do it would be to use PCISLEEP to list all PCI devices of the "network" category and use the new SET /E (or so) feature to put the first output line of PCISLEEP into an environment v

[Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC

2007-03-25 Thread Adam Smith
Hey guys, Been puzzling over a few things for a boot disk image I'm making. Currently I've got the image booting, select your network card, loads ghost (or whatever I want), all fine. But, as I'm looking for this to be as automatic as possible, I've been wondering how I can auto detect the networ