Wow! Great news. Thanks a lot!
Am 27.05.2011 23:49, schrieb Michael B. Brutman:
I released mTCP as open source today: http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/
Enjoy!
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Hi list!
I have built a special FreeDOS 1.0 image for Virtualbox:
Networking should be much easier with this image. The appropriate
packet driver for Virtualbox is already loaded at boot. So file
exchange between host and client over the network shouldn't be a
problem any more.
The image and
Am 12.01.2011 23:48, schrieb Rugxulo:
I do know that VirtualBox has some issues with DOS (e.g. no SB
support), so normally I don't use DOS there. Not sure if they fixed
some of them (EMM386 conflict) though one of the recent ones claims
to. Probably unchecking VT-X in the config helps but is
Am 15.01.2011 18:10, schrieb Michael B. Brutman:
On 1/15/2011 10:23 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
The new ftpsrv app from mTCP works, but at least on my system seems to
have problems with showing correct DOS paths. For instance it shows
c:\ as c:/\. So f.i. creating new directories in filezilla
Am 09.08.2010 18:59, schrieb Alain Mouette:
A sI said, I just installed a FreeDOS machine with those realtec drivers
las week,
Using www.netbootdisk.com
Netbootdisk is really impressive. Automatic network driver detection,
98 different drivers on a 1.44 MB disk. There's even a nice video
Am 08.08.2010 11:30, schrieb 4625:
I see that, but downloading won't to begin. Download link redirect me
to http://www.realtek.com/downloads/ .
It worked for me yesterday after I tried it a few times. See pm.
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Am 07.08.2010 03:22, schrieb Someone:
Command line linux is much easier to network than freedos and there is a
lot of utility to it.
You are right. There is no doubt that GNU/Linux is much better
equipped for networking than (Free)DOS. GNU/Linux also runs on old
hardware, although it can be
According to a google search, the EN-9130TXL card works with a Realtek
RTL8139D chip.
Drivers for that chip can be found at Realteks site:
http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=6PFid=6Level=5Conn=4DownTypeID=3GetDown=false
If you scroll down you find:
- a DOS packet
Am 05.08.2010 21:39, schrieb Mike Eriksen:
But now I need a TCP/IP stack and some basic network programs, most
importantly a dhcp client but also ping, ftp, telnet... I've googled
and searching the FD pages but haven't really found what I look for.
Go to Erick Engelkes website
Am 27.07.2010 14:57, schrieb James D Baker:
Greetings
I have freedos installed to hard disk (from full iso) and working but
the 4th boot menu option boot with out drivers can not be activated.
Hi James,
I stumbled over that bug a few days ago. To fix it:
Type:
edit C:\FDCONFIG.SYS
In the
At the moment I am experimenting with FreeDOS in VirtualBox.
Unfortunately VirtualBox seems to have problems with the expanded
memory manager. I installed both the fdbaseCD.iso and fdfullCD.iso.
But after I entered a few simple commands (like dir) it always went
into Guru Meditation.
It works
Am 19.07.2010 02:03, schrieb Garrison Ricketson:
The Laptop aspire series AOA150 Nicscan results: bus: 2 device: 0
Function: 0 PCI vendor: 10EC = Realtek Semiconductor Co.LTD PCI
device; RTL010E PCI Express Fast Eternet controller is what the
laptop says and when FreeDos starts, it say
Am 18.07.2010 00:01, schrieb Mr Sensible:
One of my projects on the back-burner is TcpLink that works the same way
LapLink does, but over a TCP/IP network, needs DOS packet drivers to
run, and uses WATTCP32 library. I have it successfully broadcasting its
presence over the network but haven't
Am 18.07.2010 00:32, schrieb Liam Proven:
DOS 5.1? I don't remember any such version.
You're right, there wasn't. After MS-DOS 5.0 came MS-DOS 6.0.
I updated my first computer in 1993 with DOS 6 so I should
have remembered that. ;-)
Uli
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Am 16.07.2010 18:00, schrieb Garrison Ricketson:
Ok, Thank you;
Ulrich Hansen (uli),andWilli Wasser, For the feed back, some of the sites you
list I had checked, but others no, years back, like 15,or 16 years ago, I did
connect my laptop,the early, Tandy,...I dont remember the whole name
Am 15.07.2010 23:20, schrieb Willi Wasser:
Please note that WATTCP is _NOT_ a permanently loaded TCP/IP stack
in the same sense as it might be familiar from operating systems like LINUX
or WINDOWS.
It's rather a library that is linked directly into each application using
WATTCP.
As a
Am 15.07.2010 23:20, schrieb Willi Wasser:
If it's just a simple file transfer, then a NETCAT program
(which can be used in server _or_ client role) will do.
Mike Brutman has such a program in his collection and
i wrote a similar one, which i called NTOOL. It can be
downloaded from here:
Ulrich Hansen:
Hi Garrison,
I spent the last two hours trying to connect two laptops with freedos
with a cross over cable. It didn't work, sorry. I am still trying to
find out why not.
If someone else would like to help:
Both laptops have a network card and an appropriate packet driver
loaded
Am 13.07.2010 21:29, schrieb Garrison Ricketson:
I am thinking about, or would like to just connect 2 computers, (laptop) and
Table top(IBM), both
have fredos, and boot with freedos, I would like to connect the laptop to the
bigger computer, but with just a cross over cable,Can FreeDos
Hi,
Mike Brutman informed me that he has improved his free networking
software mTCP for DOS / FreeDOS. Applications now include a new telnet
client. (See his mail below).
Mike is willing to make the code open source, so this could be very
interesting for the FreeDOS community and other
Liam Proven wrote:
why on earth would a whole team of volunteers spend
years cloning a large, complex, obsolete dead OS that was already
technically irrelevant a decade ago?
This is one interesting point to mention, especially to this mailing list.
:-)
You can set up a telnet server.
Search the web for Wattcp and telnetd.
Security will be better though with Linux as server OS and SSHD.
Have a nice christmas everyone! :-)
Uli
Christopher Howard wrote:
I've never used FreeDOS before...
Is it possible to log into a headless FreeDOS box from
ajouradnik schrieb:
I thought I had made the changes to the config and autoexec files to set the
system to the new NIC (Realtek 8100B), but when I try to run any network
software I get a No Packet Driver Found error.
Hi Andrew,
There is a packet driver for RTL8139 at:
Hi Karen,
Karen Lewellen wrote:
it is indeed a 560 series 2640-foe which seems to mean just a 560, there
is no additional letter given.
I visited the wifi and will hunt for one of these cards then.
but I suppose there is a
chance that I might not actually find a wireless network where I
Robert Riebisch wrote:
Did you also report this to Michael? I think, he wants some feedback
from testers. :-)
Yes I did.
I proofread your article relaxedly.
Thanks a lot for the corrections. I just changed it in our wiki.
What do you think about the performance of mTCP FTP? Did you find
Robert Riebisch wrote:
Today I stumbled accross the mTCP TCP/IP stack by Michael B. Brutman.
Home page: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
Hi Robert,
Thank you very much for sharing the link! I tested mTCP this evening.
The applications work great. I tried FTP, DHCP-client and DNStest.
They seem
After a hint from roberto I did some research about wireless
networking and freedos. I put the outcome in the wiki:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=WiFi
Maybe someone has additional infos?
regards
Ulrich
marinellucc...@tiscali.it schrieb:
Hi,
if you want , i've
at 10:48 AM, Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de
wrote:
Ulrich Hansen wrote:
the last days I have put the new Network Howto I wrote a year ago into
the FreeDOS Wiki.
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS
Thank you very much! :-)
Robert Riebisch
Hi,
the last days I have put the new Network Howto I wrote a year ago into
the FreeDOS Wiki.
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS
The former location http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos is redirected to
the Wiki. Please update your links.
I also split
Hi Adam,
If I understood correctly, you are using a Lifebook 770tx with
PCMCIA-Slot. So which card did you buy? Which PCMCIA software do you
use to enable the card?
And what kind of network do you want to use? Surf the web and email
with arachne, connect to ftp and ssh servers, set up your
usul schrieb:
I want to,
ftp, telnet, browse the web with arachne, SVN when I port the
commandline client. etc.
A ftp-server for DOS that works reliable for me is ftpsrv32.exe from
the wattcp32 package available at:
http://www.filegate.net/utiln/utilnet/wt32apps.zip
Its not secure at
Ulrich Hansen schrieb:
A ftp-server for DOS that works reliable for me is ftpsrv32.exe from
I forgot to mention Datalight Sockets again, which is a FTP server
that runs as TSR in DOS. See the mail at:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
And by the way
Hi Michael,
I haven't installed or used Novell Netware with freedos myself, but
maybe the posting of Mutant Mut to this list in June 2008 may help
you. I am forwarding this here again:
Original-Nachricht
Betreff: [Freedos-user] netware + freedos
Datum: Fri, 22 Aug 2008
Is anybody reading this?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ArachneDevelopment/message/4093
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Hi David,
David C. Kerber schrieb:
What version of Net.exe are you using? The one from the client 3.0? I
believe I'm using the one from the WG1049 (dos server) package I asked you
about last week, so I'll see if changing it helps.
I also use the NET.EXE from WG1049, which is dated from
Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schrieb:
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g:\dir *.*
Volume in drive G is MARCOS_2GB
unimplemented internal dos function INT2F/120a
Directory of g:\*.*
.DIR 9/08/08 0:27
0 bytes in 0 files and 1 dir
Alain M. schrieb:
Ulrich Hansen escreveu:
Fact is, Jemmex crashes quite often for me if the conventional memory
is low, so I don't know if it's MS Client related.
That is troublesome... Are there more JEMMEX's related problems?
I don't know if it is JEMMEX related. Seems to be just
Hi,
I did some testing:
a) Connection between FreeDOS 1.0 and FAT32 drive in Windows XP:
I used my FreeDOS 1.0 machine and MS Client 3.0. I entered:
net use I: \\laptop\usbstick
to map a FAT32 USB-stick connected to my Windows XP laptop to be the
local drive I: in my FreeDOS laptop.
Hi Michael,
I can't remember if there is a ftp-tool to do this. Please browse the
links to TCP/IP applications at:
http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/index.html#applicatio
Maybe you find something there. I used EZ-NOS2 as DOS ftp-server for
some time. But it won't run as DOS TSR.
Mapping a
so there may be other solutions as well.
Addition: Of course there may be a lot more solutions than MS Client.
Here's some fantasy:
- Install a third VM with GNU/Linux
- Install MarsNwe on GNU/Linux like Mutant Mut has thankfully reported
it a few threads up here (netware + freedos).
- Map the
Michael Reichenbach schrieb:
pcdos2k schrieb:
Maybe you find something there. I used EZ-NOS2 as DOS
ftp-server for some time. But it won't run as DOS TSR.
eznos2 can shell to dos.
I am not really a fan of eznos2 as it never worked reliable for me,
keeps crashing after some browsing by an
Ulrich Hansen schrieb:
As I understand the
manual, there seem to be no limitations to the free version.
Correction: I meant _technical_ limitations. Commercial use is not
allowed and also copying is forbidden
Hi Felix,
I use fixed IPs so I am not common with the problem you describe. I
just activated my routers DHCP server and set the appropriate line in
WATTCP.CFG to
my_IP = dhcp
instead of giving it a fixed IP.
If I now start Arachne, the DHCP server assigns an IP to the FreeDOS
machine and I
Ulrich Hansen schrieb:
Authentication with Samba on my Debian Etch server didn't work; after
typing the password I got a NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. Still working
This was just an error on my side.
With:
smbclnt.exe \\server\share -U Username Password
it works.
A smbclnt -L \\server shows
As Eric already pointed out in December there is indeed a free
smbclient. It is written by Michael Kostylev and can be downloaded
from his DynDNS server at:
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/
The server is up at the moment.
Although experimental, smbclient.exe is promising. I was able to
Hi Jacob,
great you found a packet driver for your NIC! I also found it at:
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C2childpagename=US%2FLayoutcid=1166859880202packedargs=sku%3D1115416833483pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapperlid=8020233483B03displaypage=download
Driver
Fabien Meghazi schrieb:
At last ! I found the correct packet driver for my network card ! Yeepee !
I've got wattcp working ok. I can use ssh, lynx, ...
Congratulations!
1) NFS :
The best for me would be to mount a nfs share to a drive letter on my
dos station.
It would be the ideal solution
bootdisks, for instance at:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
http://drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm
http://www.netbootdisk.com/
Good luck!
Ulrich Hansen
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Hi Chris,
Can Freedos run ndiswrapper?
No. Ndiswrapper is a linux program that enables the Linux kernel to
use NDIS drivers (drivers written for Microsoft Windows).
In contrary to Linux, DOS itself doesn't provide networking.
Networking is built either right into the applications or into an
Hi Eric
Congratulations you got it working! I couldn't answer yesterday, sorry.
The key to getting the thing going (being a 50-year-old
networking newbie) was one line in system.ini:
[network drivers]
netcard=rtsnd.dos,dis_pkt.dos
(ie not just rtsnd.dos)
Yes, I have forgotten this.
Hi Eric!
There is a DOS version of the Linux smbclient, a FTP style
Samba / Windows network neighborhood client...
Sorry, I can't find it. So far I only found the following links:
A port of the SMB library by Richard Sharpe, GNU GPL:
http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/misc/dossmb02.zip
I read on
Hi Tom,
thanks a lot for your answers!
So on the driver side, PKT and ODI drivers fade out, which only
leaves NDIS2. Which means we are stuck with MS Client / LAN Manager
Client. Unless there is some new free networking software for DOS.
Concerning applications, you mention that instead of
Eric Twose schrieb:
The card I'm using is a Realtek 8139 fast ethernet card and the network
client loads the ndis card driver rtssnd.dos. If I don't load anything else,
watt-32 reports no packet driver found, so in a bat run at bootup, I'm
loading rtspkt.com (on 0x61). I'm too much of a
Hi Alain,
Alain M. schrieb:
(PROTMAN.DOS, PROTMAN.EXE) and the Bind utility (NETBIND.COM). This is
unfree software, the files are included in MS Client, LAN Manager and Co.
Here I disagree. MS-Client is free software, even if not GPL or
distributable. But it can be used along with free
someone schrieb:
Quoting Ulrich Hansen:
The legal situation is unfortunate: Some packages seem to include
files from MS Client, while Microsoft's license does not allow such
distribution.
How hard would it be to port Linux's TCP/IP stack to Freedos? Dos is
supposedly a very simple
Hi Alain,
thanks for your friendly feedback!
Alain M. schrieb:
I believe that you should add a refernce to www.netbootdisk.com because
it is a very prectical way of putting it all toghether, including brand
new MotherBoards !
Thanks for the suggestion. I made some changes to chapter
Today I finished writing a long guide called Networking FreeDOS.
Maybe you like to take a look at it?
http://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos
I would be happy to receive your feedback.
Thanks! Have a nice chrismas time!
Ulrich Hansen
are in the folder /apps/apps.zip
Good luck!
Ulrich Hansen
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Probably you already saw this, but there is a new beta kernel of
arachne available at http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/beta/
What I really like is the support for UTF-8 character encoding, so
german wikipedia pages are shown correctly now. And I have the
impression it is faster. Much
Hi Bat,
gratulations to the successfull installation! :-)
Just for the record I'd like to add, that I installed
FreeDOS 1.0 recently on a quite similar machine,
a Compaq Contura Aero 486SXJ 33 Laptop with 20 MB RAM,
no CD/DVD and only an external PCMCIA floppy drive.
Though there is no CD
Collin Donnell schrieb:
I've been having a little trouble finding specific
information on how to
get FreeDOS going on the internet.
Hi Colinn,
I describe a comparable situation at:
http://ulihansen.kicks-ass.net/aero/freedos
The freedos version is a bit older, and the whole thing is meant
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