[Freedos-user] 1.0 Installation report/network puzzle
This was my 2nd installation ever, but my first in a system with a NIC, and the boot messages are perplexing. According to my router, FreeDOS never got a DHCP IP assignment from the router. I see among the boot messages on the screen: ... Multicast setup workaround used for both 10 Mbits and 100 Mbits This board supports 100 Mbits PHY device 1 - National DP83840 100BASE-TX, C step ... Negotiated speed 100Mbs (100Base-TX) full duplex PHY device 2 - No PHY device installed Using twisted pair cable ... Packet driver software interrupt is 0x60 (96) Interrupt number 0xB (11) I/O port 0x6800 (26624) My Ethernet address is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ... When I boot the same system from a Knoppix CD, I get: #lspci | grep thern 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 01) #ifconfig eth1 eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found #ifconfig eth0 eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:192.168.x.x Bcast:192.168.x.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 ... Is there some way to translate the FreeDOS boot messages into the networking language Linux uses, and figure out if the FreeDOS installer misconfigured, or otherwise why it doesn't seem to acquire an IP address via DHCP? Would it be easier to set up FreeDOS to use a fixed IP than to figure it out? The non-organization of the FAQ on sourceforge is a real pain on which I've yet to find anything directly on point. Googling pages on freedos.org did little more than provide a poorly organized mess of links, no onsite page that seems to cover networking. TIA -- Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way. 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
When I try to play an audio CD with MPXPLAY, it skips frequently and CDRCACHE displays an error message which takes over the screen unless I turn it(CDRCACHE) on quiet mode. The error message is CDRCACHE: raw/RedBook not cached 0001. It repeats this message over and over, ad nauseum, making a mess of my display. I suspect the two problems are connected(skipping and the error message) and they probably have something to do with not having enough memory; am I correct? Is there an update I can install to fix the problem, or will I need to upgrade my hardware? Thanks, Skyler - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Hi Skyler, When I try to play an audio CD with MPXPLAY, it skips frequently and CDRCACHE displays an error message which takes over the screen unless I turn it (CDRCACHE) on quiet mode. The error message is CDRCACHE: raw/RedBook not cached 0001. Interesting. MPXPLAY uses the general raw cdrom driver interface :-) Actually you do not HAVE to read the raw data to play it - you can also tell the cdrom drive to play audio itself. However, the latter only works if you have a connection between your cd/dvd drive and your soundcard plugged in. So MPXPLAY prefers to fetch the data as data and then turn it into sound data for the soundcard instead... My tiny cdrom2ui player for example uses soundcard cable style. It repeats this message over and over, ad nauseum, making a mess of my display. I suspect the two problems are connected (skipping and the error message) and they probably have something to do with not having enough memory; am I correct? Is there an update I can install to fix the problem, or will I need to upgrade my hardware? This should not be related to memory... Does the skipping stop when you set cdrcache to quiet mode? If your cdrcache device is CDRCACH$ then you would say echo Q CDRCACH$ for that, but you can also try echo 0 CDRCACH$ to disable the cache while using MPXPLAY (you can re-enable it with echo 1 CDRCACH$). Other useful cache commands: F flush, S stats, I detailled status, C clear stats, N normal (as opposed to quiet), V verbose, ? help. If you can read enough of the messages even while MPXPLAY plays the audio cd, you could check if cdrcache verbose mode has any interesting messages about what is going on :-). But I think the basic problem is that MPXPLAY reads the audio CD as raw data and CDRCACHE has the bad habit to show many messages about that. I should probably reconfigure the message about raw reads so that it is only shown in verbose mode. On the other hand, it MIGHT be of some use to make cdrcache able to cache raw data. Probably not. Eric ;-) PS: You can also check if the skipping stops if you do not use cdrcache at all. If you still have skipping, then maybe your drive does not want to give you enough raw read speed - maybe trying to annoy people who rip their audio CD to mp3 or ogg. Last but not least, high activity on another drive which uses the same IDE cable as your CD drive could cause slowdown, too. PPS: For SATA CD/DVD drives and writers, try GCDROM or UIDE. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
