You can sometimes find drivers for later RealTek NICs (1GbE especially) in vendor packaging from HP, Dell, IBM/Lenovo. You'll be surprised what laptops, later desktops, thin clients have drivers. ParkyTowers has a lot of links and info about hardware and drivers that can be relevant for later hardware (https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/).
On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 8/4/2024 2:32 PM, Sean McCune via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > > > Well, I tried that and it gave: > > > > "ERROR: AR813x/AR815x not found on slot 0xFF > > > > Driver Init Error" > > > > I dug up the old info I had researched a few months ago on this laptop > > > > (I had given up on this laptop's networking already) and this is an: > > > > > > "Acer Aspire One ZG5, model number A0A 150 1570" - the sticker on bottom > > > > > > I found a support manual at: > > > > > https://www.s-manuals.com/pdf/notebook/acer/acer_aspire_one_aoa150_service_guide.pdf > > > > > > > > and it sayeth the LAN chip is the Realtek RTL8102EL. > > > > The packetdriversdos.net site has an RTEODI.COM which lists the 8102E > > but not > > > > the 8102EL. But I'm going to try it. I've never messed with ODI on > > FreeDOS, so > > > > this will be yet another fun new bit of trauma to learn from. :-) > > Well, RealTek is certainly completely different from Atheros. And All > RTL81xx chips should run off the same drivers,. RealTek still used to > have all their drivers for all chips and all OS on their web site, last > time I had to check for something... > > Just checked again and they seemed to have cleaned up a little bit as > well, the only Fast Ethernet (100TX) chip they still have files for is > the RTL8139, they also have a DOS disgnostic program, if that gives you > reasonable output, the DOS driver for it should work as well... > > https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=587&menu_id=297 > > > Ralf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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