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 classic DEVICE(HIGH) lines in config.sys and Ghost picks it up. Do the same with DEVLOAD and it just doesn't detect them (can't pick network options, only gives local).
I'll play around with it a bit more, as well as looking at the NWDSK to see how they're doing it. And yeah, I don't think METAKERN will do what I want, but looks to be an interesting program in itself, so I'll keep it in mind. Thanks Eric Auer wrote: > 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 > variable. Then you would indeed use DEVLOAD... You > did not say why devload caused problems. Do things > work with classic DEVICE lines in config sys or > does GHOST load things in a completely other way? > > To boot a kernel of your choice, you can have a > look at METAKERN. You could modify it to make the > choice depending on some PCI scan results. But I > doubt that this is what you want. You always want > the same kernel, just different config sys lines. > As said, it should even be possible to figure out > how to do all loading later with DEVLOAD. Do make > sure that enough memory is free - it might be the > case that using BASH for your "which driver?" > decision takes too much memory, so DEVLOAD cannot > give the driver enough memory to load properly. > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
