Re: [Freedos-user] PCI Express Network Adapter Board for FreeDos

2020-11-11 Thread Marv
Ralf - I gave up on that motherboard with the onboard PCIe Realtek network adapter and picked up a circa 1999 Intel Pentium II machine with (2) Adaptec ANA-6911 PCI network adapter boards. I'm pretty sure I found the right NDIS drivers for them. It also has a spare ISA slot, so I have that option,

Re: [Freedos-user] Possible zoom metting?

2020-11-11 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 5:39 PM wrote: > > Are you guys planning another Zoom meeting? Depending on the time and day, I > might be able to join in also, but, I seem to have lost the original mail > about it. Please note that the previous gatherings have *not* been *Zoom* meetings. Jim uses a

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI Express Network Adapter Board for FreeDos

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/11/2020 9:10 AM, Marv wrote: Ralf - I gave up on that motherboard with the onboard PCIe Realtek network adapter and picked up a circa 1999 Intel Pentium II machine with (2) Adaptec ANA-6911 PCI network adapter boards. I'm pretty sure I found the right NDIS drivers for them. It also has a

Re: [Freedos-user] Possible zoom metting?

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/7/2020 6:23 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: Horrors, Jim: The get-together in late June was 9am US/Central, and the one in mid-August was 11am US/Central. That seemed to work well. That's 4 AM in Canberra! I'd rather sleep. Well, that's a general problem of having people literally all over

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI Express Network Adapter Board for FreeDos

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/9/2020 7:35 AM, Marv wrote: I assume rtl8139 is a generic virtual driver and is the only choice for a virtual Realtek adapter. My actual network adapter identifies as a rtl8111/8168B. but says 8111GR on the chip. I realize my virtual installation isn't going to use my physical network

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues

2020-11-11 Thread Hollowone PL
Hello everybody, I just joined this newsletter and I hope the community, I had a few tries with FreeDOS but mostly in the VM and mostly for the use cases that DOSBOX handles much better. None of these are related to my current deployment, which was hacking the UEFI boot manager that comes with

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI Express Network Adapter Board for FreeDos

2020-11-11 Thread ZB
Maybe "generic" NE2000 packet driver will do (I mean FreeDOS)? Something like this: https://dos.retro.software/downloads/download/300-ne2000-compatible-nic-drivers/1470-ne2000-packet-driver -- regards, Zbigniew ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] Possible zoom metting?

2020-11-11 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:18 AM dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 5:39 PM wrote: > > > > Are you guys planning another Zoom meeting? Depending on the time and > day, I might be able to join in also, but, I seem to have lost the original > mail about it. > > Please note that the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/11/2020 12:06 PM, Hollowone PL wrote: Hello everybody, I just joined this newsletter and I hope the community, I had a few tries with FreeDOS but mostly in the VM and mostly for the use cases that DOSBOX handles much better. None of these are related to my current deployment, which

[Freedos-user] DOS/16M

2020-11-11 Thread Jose Senna
Randon Liegh said: >I'm not sure what DOS16/m is -it sounds like a DPMI server? If so, then it >provides 32-bit addressing >to dos programs. AFA I remember, DOS/16M is a DOS extender to allow use of DOS in protected mode. It predates DPMI specification and is geared towards the 16-bit

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues

2020-11-11 Thread Random Liegh via Freedos-user
I'm not sure what DOS16/m is -it sounds like a DPMI server? If so, then it provides 32-bit addressing to dos programs. Japeth (who created the hx extender) was working on a 64bit stub for DOS that you might be interested in? https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Dos64-stub I don't know if

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues

2020-11-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/11/2020 12:06 PM, Hollowone PL wrote: My research will be mostly development and to test how I can switch from FreeDOS to long mode (64bit protected mode) but I cannot even use dev tools provided in packages as they often return DOS16/m exceptions and hang the computer out. With this