Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support

2012-09-03 Thread TJ Edmister
It might be possible to get a PCMCIA card working, depending on the particular hardware. Most likely, you would need a set of "card and socket services" DOS drivers for your PCMCIA chipset and a true PCMCIA card (rather than the newer Cardbus type, which almost everyone seems to refer to as

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support

2012-09-03 Thread nospam
My DOSUSB driver comes with support for USB-Serial adapters. However DOSUSB does not emulate an UART and therefore will not work with many DOS communications programs. You will have to change the application program to either support the DOSUSB URB/API or use the included serdrv.sys device dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support

2012-09-03 Thread cordata02
You don't say whether you want to run FreeDOS on the bare metal or in a VM. My suggestion would be that if you already have Windows on your laptop it's quite easy to run FreeDOS in a VM, then you can connect the USB port using Windows and set it up as COMx inside the VM, then you don't need to w