FYI: I mirrored the DIS_PKT 11 on ibibilio:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/

On 1/5/08, Ulrich Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> >>> Can Freedos run ndiswrapper?
>
> No. Ndiswrapper is a linux program that enables the Linux kernel to
> use NDIS drivers (drivers written for Microsoft Windows).
>
> In contrary to Linux, DOS itself doesn't provide networking.
> Networking is built either right into the applications or into an
> external TCP/IP kernel.
>
> Most of these applications use "packet drivers", a driver
> specification developed in the early eighties. Other sorts of drivers
> are ODI (Novell) or NDIS (Microsoft).
>
> As Eric wrote, there is a wrapper called DIS_PKT9 that allows to use
> NDIS version 2 drivers (extension: ".DOS") as packet drivers. Other
> wrappers are available for ODI drivers, if you have one of these. Look
> at lazybrowndog.net/freedos for more info.
>
> I can't help with USB, sorry. But for wireless PCMCIA cards check
> Orinoco 802.11b cards with the wlan42.com ODI driver, they seem to
> work in DOS. (see: <www.proxim.com/support/techbulletins/TB-051.pdf>)
>
> Uli
>
>
>
>
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