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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
Manager (protman.dos), a slightly modified dis_pkt.dos from
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 :)
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
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
