Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port WiFi modems - was: MS-DOS 7.1

The various Wifi232 variants seem to run about $45-$100USD. I think the PiModems w/a $10-$15USD PiZeroW could be made cheaper but no one seems to be producing prebuilt versions. On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:04 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi DOS people, > > those links from Louis are really interestin

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

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

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

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

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

Adding to Mr. Cochran's remarks, the USB to serial portusually is a 9-pin like the ones provided on the IBM PC AT. The Wikipedia article Serial Port has a picture of a USB dongle. It is a good source for backgrou

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

You can buy a USB-to-serial adapter that plugs into your USB port and provides a serial port. I don't know if FreeDOS provides drivers to support USB-to-serial adapters but they exist. There are online stores that sell these adapters in great variety -- the chipsets used to support them vary, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

At 03:01 PM 9/7/2011, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi Ralf, James, > > >> I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with > >> freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I > >> see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on > >> USB. But I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

Hi Ralf, James, >> I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with >> freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I >> see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on >> USB. But I don't know which would relate to my external speech synth

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

At 11:07 AM 9/7/2011, James Collins wrote: >I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with >freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I >see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on >USB. But I don't know which would relate to my exte

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

Hi, If I followed all this, I would start by checking the usb aspect itself. likewise, just as an extra test, can you connect the synthesizer directly to your box, as in is there a serial port working on the box running freedos? that too would help isolate the problem. if it works fine without th

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

Hi James, > I have an external speech synthesizer that I have been fooling around > with on my host os. Mac os x 10.7 lion. > In order to use the synthesizer on my mac I had to get a usb2serial > adaptor and install it's driver. ... > Anyway, I just wondered if anyone had any info or help on g