I've found that the ADM PCNet adaptor in QEMU (-device pcnet) with the
matching DOS drivers work well under FreeDOS. I wasn't able to get any of
the other QEMU emulated ethernet devices to work properly under DOS.
I spent a lot of time fighting with the Intel adaptors - it seems the QEMU
emulated Intel adaptors are pretty new, and the Intel DOS drivers are
pretty old. I finally gave up and went back to AMD PCNet.
I was able to use NDIS2 drivers with MSNET (using TCP/IP bindings and
talking to a Samba server) as well as packet drivers with the DOS based TCP
stacks. Also works well with etherdfs.
Hopefully that saves you some time (I spent a lot of time troubleshooting
these adaptors on the DOS side.)
- Darrin
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 3:41 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On Sep 6, 2022, at 11:43 AM, Phil Reynolds <
> phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had FreeDOS 1.2 working quite nicely, networking included, on qemu,
> > but I am lost as to (a) how I originally achieved it (b) how I might do
> > likewise with 1.3 - is there any specific documentation I can follow?
>
> By default during the boot process, FDAUTO runs "FDNET.BAT start”
>
> The “start” option tells FDNET to only run on known compatible virtual
> machines (ie. VirtualBox and VMware).
>
> You will need to configure QEMU with an appropriate network card. I don’t
> use QEMU much to run DOS. Can’t help you there.
>
> Then if it is one of the Network cards supported by FDNET, you can just
> remove the “start” option.
>
> Otherwise, you could create a custom batch called FDNETPD.BAT that knows
> how to configure your packet driver. You would then place both your custom
> FDNETPD.BAT and Packet Driver in the FDNET directory. Then running FDNET
> should bring up your networking. This prevents the need for customizing the
> FDCONFIG and/or FDAUTO every time you reinstall, upgrade the OS or update
> packages.
>
> Hope that helps at least a little.
>
> :-)
>
> Jerome
>
> >
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> > Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/
> >
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