> Am 21.08.2016 um 15:33 schrieb Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net>: > > Hello Ulrich, > > I will definitely look into it very soon. > (Probably next weekend. Some changes at work have really limited my free time > lately)
Hello Jerome, thanks for the reply. No reason to hurry… :-) > Rugxulo has also pointed me to a FreeDOS based release that MetaDOS. It > seems to do the automatic networking setup pretty well. Yes it’s kind of magic. I am flattened. With berndpci and some cryptic PCI codes it identifies different cards (PCNTPK, NE2000, RTSPKT). I found an old mail by Bret Johnson (Nov 11th, 2013) in "FreeDOS user", who used TSRCOM to do the same. And I looked into CRYNWR.BAT in the CRYNWR package - they also try to identify cards, also virtual network cards. I am now looking into vmware to understand how their virtual network works. Maybe the above could be done in FreeDOS 1.2 too. BTW: For berndpci there is no license file, it just states Public Domain. > Your solution will probably be easier for me to implement though. Especially, > since > you have figured out all of the steps needed to get it working. I am still working on it. I am for instance not sure what happens if you update a FDNPK package. Will configuration files be overwritten? Is it really OK to let "fdinst install MTCP.ZIP" create C:\FDOS\MTCP.CFG? >> Bugs2 >> The DHCP line won’t work as the C:\MTCP directory is not added to the PATH. >> The PCNTPK line will not work as C:\FDOS\DRIVERS\CRYNWR is not added to the >> PATH. >> Would this be fixed in FDNPKG or in the installer? >> >> Please add them to the PATH. Then remove the REM in both lines. > > I think the best solution will be to relocate all networking stuff in the > AUTOEXEC.BAT into > a separate batch file. Probably, NETSTART.BAT or STARTNET.BAT. Then, provide > it as a > separate package. > > Then in the AUTOEXEC, just test for its existence and run it if present. A > user could easily > disable it by using a single REM or removing the package. Sounds good. >> Bug 3 >> Loading high PCNTPK will not work with option 2. So remove the „LH“ in this >> line. > > Do you know why it won’t load high with option 2? I can’t remember. In my VirtualBox images I have in AUTOEXEC.BAT the line: IF "%config%"=="2" PCNTPK INT=0x60 IF NOT "%config%"=="2" LH PCNTPK INT=0x60 so I worked around the bug for a long time. But why? I suspect it had to do with the different memory management in option 1 and 2. Thanks again! Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
