Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Version 1.0 reviewed

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:53 PM 4/25/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 24-áÐÒ-2004 21:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I thought ram by itself meant dynamic EMS allocation as opposed to allocating a fixed amount (at least, this is what the docs day), that's how I use ram in

[Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
In the last major release of my project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/), I changed my network boot disk to use FreeDOS instead of MS-DOS. Now, my users are reporting that the boot disk no longer works on machines which have Intel gigabit (PRO/1000) networking hardware. I have one machine

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Version 1.0 reviewed

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:36 PM 4/25/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 25-áÐÒ-2004 11:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I thought ram by itself meant dynamic EMS allocation as opposed to MD It's not documented that way on any EMM386 docs I see, including EMM386 may be able to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
help-files are already collected in a zipfile, Rob worked on that. I suggested compressing the CPI-files to Eric using Gzip, but that would add Zlib to MODE. Eric likes another less efficient but smaller to implement compression algorythm/program. he said it reduces CPI from 58 (60) to 19KB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 ROM/RAM (was: FreeDOS Version 1.0 reviewed)

2004-04-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25--2004 15:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system externalmx-1.sourceforge.net, has EA identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message EA has been attached to this so you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Ooops... Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps for MOST of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 ROM/RAM (was: FreeDOS Version 1.0 reviewed)

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: RAM= assume that there already IS RAM at this place, so leave it mapped 1:1 and put UMB or EMS page frame there Do not mess with terms: RAM= scanable area: scan it, and if found empty, map, and have into account any X=, I= X=unconditionally excluded for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you're failing without HIMEM or EMM386 loaded, you have to be hitting a kernel compatibility, agreed? It can't be a UMB conflict or a p-mode conflict or something failing in EMS/XMS/VCPI/DPMI calls. That actually narrows the field of suspects

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[Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-25 Thread david lowe
First a few updates... My considering converting to FreeDOS was because of some recent problems with my system, some of which were problems in Windoze. Eventually (over the course of this weekend) I had to reformat my hard drive. Now that that's over with, I have a few more questions: What

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-25 Thread Paul Berger
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:33, Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: david lowe wrote: SNIP What utilities are recommended for download management, internet browser, virus/trojan/worm detection removal? I have yet to find them, although I have heard Arachne works well as a browser.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:08 PM 4/25/2004 -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't do kernel work, but depending on how much you want to dig in the guts of the problem, you might want to grab the 386SWAT debugger and load it immediately after the driver, with nothing

[Freedos-devel] MODE (DTR working properly)

2004-04-25 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Eric, I monitored with a RS232 break-out box, DTR raise when BAUDHARD=1. But when it's low, it shows DTR=AUTO. That seems a bit confusing. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a

[Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't do kernel work, but depending on how much you want to dig in the guts of the problem, you might want to grab the 386SWAT debugger and load it immediately after the driver, with nothing else. It should catch the exception and throw you into the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:08 PM 4/25/2004 -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't do kernel work, but depending on how much you want to dig in the guts of the problem, you might want to grab the 386SWAT debugger and load it immediately after the driver, with nothing

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-25 Thread Johnson Lam
On 25 Apr 2004 18:10:17 -0400, you wrote: Hi Patrick, With FreeDOS (ke2034_32), it crashes as I described: The driver loads, but when tinyrfc.exe tries to obtain a DHCP lease, it gets an invalid opcode. You report faster than me. I got the same problem when trying MSCLIENT, it does work under