There's 100 PCI drivers here
(http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/pktdrv.zip).

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> N.B. The OP's subject line is too vague. You'd probably get more help
> with a more specific description of the problem. Some people don't
> have time to pore over all the various threads.
>
> Anyways, please keep reading below, I'll (weakly) respond inline.
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
>>
>> The PCNTPK driver is meant to be used only on computers with the AMD
>> PC-NET network card (which is also emulated by VirtualBox).
>>
>> You most probably have a different network card - what you need is to
>> know exactly what network card you have (vendor/model), and then look
>> for a matching "packet driver". A packet driver is what makes it
>> possible for TCP stacks under DOS to use networking.
>>
>> Mateusz
>
> Georg Potthast has some packet drivers mirrored on his website:
>
> http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm
>
> He also has NICSCAN, which "maybe" will help ease your search:
>
> http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/pktdrv/nicscan.zip
>
> But don't get your hopes up too high, a lot of (wired) network cards
> these days probably aren't well-supported on DOS, if at all. Blame
> your manufacturer directly (write them an email, offer to pay them,
> etc).
>
> Keep reading below.
>
>> On 08/18/2014 10:44 AM, Thsise Faek wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed freedos on a computer (not VirtualBox, real install)
>>> and ive been trying to set up the network.
>
> What kind of computer? What network card? What does Linux detect it
> has? "dmesg | grep eth0"?
>
>>> Just like in the instructions, I went into the autoexec.bat, and removed
>>> the REM from REM LH PCNTPK INT=0x60. It gave me this error during
>>> startup (PCNTPK-DOS-015: Device not found.)
>>>
>>> Removing the LH and leaving only PCNTPK INT=0x60 gave me the same error
>>> during startup. Because of this I cant use any network functions.
>>> How do I fix this?
>
> Well, the obvious answer (that you seem to avoid, why?) is to use an
> emulator / hypervisor like VirtualBox. It works there, at least. I
> know that's not necessarily ideal, but it's better than nothing.
>
> Some of the more obvious packet drivers are in the set from Crynwr:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/net/crynwr.zip
>
> However, once again, you have to know exactly what you want and how to
> set it up. I don't remember the details on searching for specific PCI
> IDs, so you'll have to hope that someone like Eric Auer or Bernd Blauw
> chime in here. Presumably you use something like PCISLEEP or BERNDPCI:
>
> 1). http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/pcisleep-2005mar12.zip
> 2). http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/berndpci.zip
>
> Wasn't there some database of all the various PCI devices? Was it some
> website? Anyone remember? (Probably Eric does.) Hmmm, maybe this is
> it:
>
> http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
>
> Hope some of this helps! Please report back to us with your results
> (successes, failures).
>
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