Re: [Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers

2006-04-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, If you buy hardware in a managed way (e.g. HP, IBM, Dell) I don't think you'll have any problems getting FreeDOS to pull o/s builds from servers. I use this to do Windows 2000 builds on a big network; it's very reliable and fast. However, I'm not sure there a future in this for a few reas

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] DRM and Free Software...the perspective of the OpenGEM chap

2006-04-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Shane, I think DRM will annoy people, but I also believe they will substantially accept it simply because most large companies will use it. It'll be the norm. Yes I see what you are saying especially in the context of products "off the shelf"; they'll get what they're given. However, ther

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Lan Card drivers

2006-04-04 Thread Blair Campbell
> a large number of network card drivers for DOS (not only for > FreeDOS) is available on http://www.crynwr.com/ - of course In addition, many vendors supply DOS drivers for their hardware; although very few wireless cards come with DOS drivers, many ethernet cards come with DOS drivers -- Fall i

[Freedos-user] re: Lan Card drivers

2006-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Basudeb, a large number of network card drivers for DOS (not only for FreeDOS) is available on http://www.crynwr.com/ - of course DOS differs from Windows in that there is no kernel network stack. Instead, you compile your networked app with a network library like Wattcp or Watt32. Drivers for

[Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers

2006-04-04 Thread basudeb gupta
Hello All, I have to decide between FreeDos. WinPE as the platform for a bootable application. Are the latest lan card drivers available on FreeDOS? Is there a list of supported lan cards somewhere? Thanks Basudeb --- This SF.Net email is