I can tell you that the packet drivers I was directed to, crynwyr, are SO OLD.
no development has been done on DOS packet drivers since then, apparently.
solution? get the drivers from realtek (the email I sent to this list
earlier), and get a cheap ethernet NIC that is realtek 8139-based. voila.
DOS packet drivers are available from NIC manufacturers.
>________________________________
>From: dos386 <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:11 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] potential issues with freedos in virtual
>environments
>
>> Why should we have to tell DOS users that only a certain and
>> small subset of all virtual environments can do FreeDOS?
>
>Alternatively, tell them to install it on a PC ;-)
>
>> Using as many different emulators/virtualisers as possible among
>> developers/testers might show issues earlier
>
>Would FreeDOS work on a PC then ???
>
>BTW, does BOCHS have any problems ? Just recommend BOCHS
>only (only for those having FreeDOS-incompatible hadrware).
>
>> The better virtualization environments realize this and use
>> paravirtualization. In a nutshell, the guest operating system runs
>> special device drivers that know how to hit magic buttons in the VM.
>> In the case of the network adapter, instead of doing a whole bunch of
>> privileged I/O operations to send a packet a paravirtualized driver can
>> press a magic button on the VM, telling it where the
>> data is and how to send it
>
>> Ultimately we're going to need to have DOS device drivers that
>> know how to interact with the various VMs
>
>Will this end up in a "FreeDOS" having Internet "everywhere", except
>on a PC ? I have my PCI Ethernet card working in DOS, but the card is
>almost 15 years old. I have no clue how recent PC's do ...
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