Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-11 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-09 Thread Alain Mouette
As I said: www.netbootdisk.com detects and installs the correct driver. Alain Em 06-08-2010 23:53, Someone escreveu: On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 23:10 -0300, Alain Mouette wrote: I completly disagree. Just today I installed FreeDOS on a brand new Asus board with SATA2 a gigabit ethernet chip.

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-09 Thread Alain Mouette
A sI said, I just installed a FreeDOS machine with those realtec drivers las week, Using www.netbootdisk.com Alain Em 07-08-2010 17:16, Ulrich Hansen escreveu: 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-08 Thread 4625
8-Aug-2010 числа, в 00:21 часов, Ulrich Hansen написал(а) следующее: 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:

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-08 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I question whether TCP/IP is the best way to go in a DOS environment. That depend on your needs. Been a member of the Thinstation Linux thin client team, I have all the lightweight Linux I could wish. My original need came

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread 4625
6-Aug-2010 числа, в 18:22 часов, Someone написал(а) следующее: I'd say that Freedos is okay for networking if you have a card that is supported by open source drivers, but that seems to be a very short list of cards at this time. I guess the question to ask of anyone seeking to Does anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread 4625
6-Aug-2010 числа, в 19:53 часов,, Someone написал(а) следующее: execute, because it can't. DOS cannot stop viruses/worms very easily because it doesn't shield the hardware in the first place. This is all the more reason to avoid connecting to global networks from a DOS based environment.

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-06 Thread Someone
I'd say that Freedos is okay for networking if you have a card that is supported by open source drivers, but that seems to be a very short list of cards at this time. I guess the question to ask of anyone seeking to network Freedos is, is a dos environment enough for what you are after? Command

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-06 Thread Alain Mouette
I completly disagree. Just today I installed FreeDOS on a brand new Asus board with SATA2 a gigabit ethernet chip. Simple: go to www.netbootdisk.com and create a floppy. After it boots and detects the NIC, copy it's driver including packet driver. Easy... The truth is that if you have an

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-06 Thread Someone
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 23:10 -0300, Alain Mouette wrote: I completly disagree. Just today I installed FreeDOS on a brand new Asus board with SATA2 a gigabit ethernet chip. Simple: go to www.netbootdisk.com and create a floppy. After it boots and detects the NIC, copy it's driver