Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

Mateusz, the packet driver works very well on my PCI Intel card but not on my onboard, I have googled myself crazy searching for a working packet driver. Linux had a problem with this card a few years back and the result was a special e1000e driver, but I have no idea how to recompile it (is is

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-09 14:07 GMT+01:00, Don Flowers : > Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel 82567LM-3 for > which there seems to be no DOS option for connectivity and the sound is HD > and unrecognisableed by either MPXPlay or Mplayer, I have at least one game >

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

I see, your onboard NIC is most probably based on some custom variant of the chip. This makes things tricky... Then I'm afraid there won't be any magic possible - either you would need to replace the motherboard with something having more slots, or connect one of the network/sound things via a

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

Hi! > Eric, I have bought 3 PCIe sound cards advertised as DOS/SB compatible > and none have worked. Perhaps we need a list of working PCIe cards? Modern mainboards fail to provide some aspects of ISA-awareness to make hardware emulation on PCI / PCIe cards work. However, you can try software

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-11 12:27 GMT+01:00, Mateusz Viste : > That's nice to know, thanks for the links! I don't think though that > anyone will want to spend $500+ for a retro home machine (which > incidentally wouldn't be that retro any more) :) I'm going to :) it'll be a "spacesaver" -