Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On 26 Apr 2004 07:56:43 -0400, you wrote: Hi Patrick, >This is with Intel PRO/1000 hardware, not 3com hardware. I strongly >suspect you and I are seeing independent problems. But Tom's advise did work on my system, that means you may have the same problem later (when you fix this). Rgds, Joh

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:27:31 +0200, you wrote: Hello Tom, >try > LH /L: NET INIT > >to force loading of network driver into low memory. Thank you Tom, now the MSCLIENT work, you are really a genius :-) Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.net email

Re: [Freedos-devel] EBDA

2004-04-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > BO> MSDOS 7.10 does move the EBDA though. What MSDOS are we looking at now -- > BO> the FAT16 kernel says 5.0, and the FAT32 says 7.10 ? > > MSDOS 7.1 doesn't move it on F5 (or ctrl-F5 ? should this depend on > the kernel version ?), but seems to move in h

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:00 PM 4/26/2004 -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> First thing to look at is the register values, which are across the >> top line. We need those values. Then look at the failing CPU >> instruction line which is highlighted in the main window.

[Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First thing to look at is the register values, which are across the > top line. We need those values. Then look at the failing CPU > instruction line which is highlighted in the main window. That > together with the register values should give the im

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:03 PM 4/26/2004 -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is X=TEST really necessary? Unfortunately yes, at least for some >> machines. There exist PC's which place ROM code in the upper memory >> area, but without the standard ROM signature of 55h A

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Erwin Veermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wild guess: > > Did you try "switches=/E" in config.sys? > Some people were reporting issues with latest kernel that > could be reverted with the /E-switch. Browse this list > for more info ... No effect. Also, this happens with both the 2.0.33 and

[Freedos-devel] Re: New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is X=TEST really necessary? Unfortunately yes, at least for some > machines. There exist PC's which place ROM code in the upper memory > area, but without the standard ROM signature of 55h AAh. These > aren't old moldy machines either. In a small te

[Freedos-devel] New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-26 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are emm386.zip (uncompressed executable) and emm386sr.zip (source) with several changes related to UMBs, EMS, and rebooting. The ZIP files are dated April 26, 2004, actual files dated April 25. EMM386 performs a warm boot upon a Ctrl-Alt-Del ke

Re: [Freedos-devel] EBDA

2004-04-26 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bart, >> Checking MSDOS 6.2, the kernel doesn't move the EBDA if no UMB is >> found. BO> MSDOS 7.10 does move the EBDA though. What MSDOS are we looking at now -- BO> the FAT16 kernel says 5.0, and the FAT32 says 7.10 ? it's not a matter of reported kernel version - and I don't care about

Re: [Freedos-devel] EBDA

2004-04-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > Checking MSDOS 6.2, the kernel doesn't move the EBDA if no UMB is > found. MSDOS 7.10 does move the EBDA though. What MSDOS are we looking at now -- the FAT16 kernel says 5.0, and the FAT32 says 7.10 ? > in the default setting, moving the EBDA doesn't sav

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Alain escribió: Just one question: How much does MODE grow with Zlib? And one more: What about an install program that extracts needed information from a standard .zip file specific for that user's needs? I'd support that, but requires work: (1) either to create the packs (2) or to make the prog

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-26 Thread Alain
Just one question: How much does MODE grow with Zlib? And one more: What about an install program that extracts needed information from a standard .zip file specific for that user's needs? Alain right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half

[Freedos-devel] EBDA

2004-04-26 Thread tom ehlert
Checking MSDOS 6.2, the kernel doesn't move the EBDA if no UMB is found. moving the EBDA makes most sense anyway, if it's moved to upper (UMB) memory) So I would recommend to disable move EBDA by default, or to move it only if UMB space can be allocated for it. in the default setting, moving the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS

2004-04-26 Thread Erwin Veermans
> With FreeDOS (ke2034_32), it crashes as I described: The driver loads, > but when tinyrfc.exe tries to obtain a DHCP lease, it gets an invalid > opcode. Wild guess: Did you try "switches=/E" in config.sys? Some people were reporting issues with latest kernel that could be reverted with the /E-s

[Freedos-devel] Re: Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You report faster than me. > > I got the same problem when trying MSCLIENT, it does work under > FDXXMS+UMBPCI (try it), but fail with HIMEM+EMM386. I'm quite sure the > memory manager and hardware not so compatible especially Network > Interface Card. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, I have not had success with dial-up in FreeDOS, but in case I had, I have recently discovered that there's a version of PegasusMail for DOS, so perhaps that's a start for an email client for DOS... Aitor david lowe escribió: Is there an equivalent of Dialup Networking in the FreeDOS system

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-26 Thread Steve Nickolas
At Mon, 26 Apr 2004 9:59am +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: > > > I only wish we had ADSL and cable-modem dialers. :( > > these are *way* too complicated with the limited resources we have. > > My ADSL modem alone needs more firmware downlo

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: > I only wish we had ADSL and cable-modem dialers. :( these are *way* too complicated with the limited resources we have. My ADSL modem alone needs more firmware downloaded (770K) into it everytime it starts than what DOS was designed fo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-26 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Johnson, JL> I got the same problem when trying MSCLIENT, it does work under JL> FDXXMS+UMBPCI (try it), but fail with HIMEM+EMM386. I'm quite sure the JL> memory manager and hardware not so compatible especially Network JL> Interface Card. Freedos EMM386 doesn't support VDS yet, and NET.EXE

Re: [Freedos-devel] Intel PRO/1000 driver fails under FreeDOS (MSCLIENT failure)

2004-04-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: I got the same problem when trying MSCLIENT, it does work under FDXXMS+UMBPCI (try it), but fail with HIMEM+EMM386. I'm quite sure the memory manager and hardware not so compatible especially Network Interface Card. try HIMEM + UMBPCI (there's even a 3.57beta7 version at the UM

Re: [Freedos-devel] MODE (DTR working properly)

2004-04-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:31:34 +0800, you wrote: Sorry everyone, >I monitored with a RS232 break-out box, DTR raise when BAUDHARD=1. I type the wrong number! When setting the speed (e.g. BAUDHARD=96) DTR will raise, BAUDHARD=1 only shows the status and DTR Rgds, Johnson.