Hi, it's all righth for your comments...
But, i suppose, dont' have exit way.. In fact , i running arachne with older pcmcia 11 mb drivers for wifi, BUT i can't use new pcmcia card wifi up to 54 and more MB .. Impossible also using wifi pen or usb external device like printers / scanners or bluetoot.. How many time we can continue use dos with OLDER hardware? François Revol wrote: > > Le 05/09/2011 20:52, Bernd Blaauw a écrit : >> Op 5-9-2011 20:39, iw2evk schreef: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper >>> >>> why possible in linux and not under DOS? >> >> Because of manpower, working in protected mode etc? DOS is a realmode >> operating system. Best option I know is shims around ODI/NDIS drivers. > > More likely due to threading model (DOS doesn't have any). > >> Alternatively, have fun with http://ipxe.org > > Other options which might have some NIC drivers: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > http://www.coreboot.org/ > >> People are more than welcome to start writing IDE/ASPI driver, an UNDI >> packet driver, specific network card packet drivers, drivers for sound >> cards etc. Drivers are usually written according to a specification. >> Extracting a specification from an implemented (open source) driver >> *stack* is quite difficult. > > Again I suggest getting in touch with Rosetta OS: > http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/ > > RTEMS landed there some info about NIC drivers ported from BSD: > http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/wiki/RTEMSLibBSDNicDrivers > > Not sure the threading model used will help porting though. > > François. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better > price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you > download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Freedos-and-lack-of-drivers-tp32318100p32405616.html Sent from the FreeDOS - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
