Re: [Freedos-user] PNP ISA network card locks during early boot with P S/2 mouse connected

[Bret Johnson]

If your motherboard has USB built into it, it could be related to that.  The 
way Legacy USB Support works for mice and keyboards is that it puts the CPU 
into temporarily System Management Mode (SMM) and virtualizes the PS2 I/O ports 
through the PCI bus.  Legacy USB Support is actually a very ugly kludge.

Older motherboards wouldn't let you mix PS2 and USB at the same time, so you 
usually have to disable Legacy USB Support if you want to use PS2 devices.  If 
your MB doesn't have USB support, this can't be the problem.  I'm also not sure 
why the network card has anything to do with it, but if the BIOS is screwed up 
for USB there's no telling what else is wrong with it.

Maybe a trail to investigate, anyway.

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Dale E Sterner  wrote:
>
> If Jack's drivers are left out of version 1.2 ; is there
> something to replace them.

https://www.kernel.org/

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[Freedos-user] PNP ISA network card locks during early boot with PS/2 mouse connected

[John Hupp]

I have a number of identical PNP ISA network cards based on the Realtek 
RTL8019AS chip that I would like to figure out how to run under FreeDOS.


I have not been able to determine the brand or manufacturer.  There is a 
white sticker with "ESL-816VT", and screen-printed just above that 
"T292312T1AZZ0," but neither has led me to an identification. There is 
no FCC ID #.


So I'm trying to work with information and a DOS setup utility from 
Realtek.  The chip is NE2000 compatible, so if I can get the hardware 
configured I should be in business.


The sticking point is that I can't get the PC to boot with the NIC 
installed and a PS/2 mouse connected.  It stops at the point where the 
BIOS identifies/configures hardware.  But if I hot unplug the mouse it 
will continue booting.


It will boot cleanly with a serial mouse, or with no mouse.  But for 
various reasons I want to get it running with a PS/2 mouse.


It seems like a resource conflict, but I have not been able to find 
one.  With the Intel ISA Configuration Utility (ICU) driver installed, 
the NIC is configured to use IRQ 3 and I/O 220.  As I recall, that is 
also what the card defaults to without the ICU driver running.


The ICU suite has a utility that reports on resource usage, and IRQ 3 
and I/O 220 are not reported to be in use by anything else.  The PS/2 
mouse should be using IRQ 12, reserved for this purpose.


I have also configured a card to use IRQ 10 and I/O 300, which are 
reported to be unused by anything else, and I get the same behavior when 
I connect a PS/2 mouse.


Interestingly, the RTL8019AS supports jumpered, jumperless and PNP 
modes, but in the implementation on this card there are no jumpers, and 
the Realtek utility is not able to switch the card out of its current 
PNP mode to jumperless mode.


Can anyone see what the problem is?
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

[Dale E Sterner]

If Jack's drivers are left out of version 1.2 ; is there
something to replace them. 

DS


On Thu, 12 May 2016 17:19:28 -0500 Rugxulo  writes:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
>  wrote:
> >
> > So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages 
> and have corrected their LSM data.
> >
> > In those groups, these packages have not been solved.
> >
> > Unknown license information and will probably be dropped from 
> release,
> >
> > ARCHIVER/ARJ
> 
> I don't know about ARJ (clone), I've never needed to use it. I (very
> rarely) used UnARJ, which seems "Free" (to my naive eyes, but it's
> always hard to tell). So, if you really want ARJ support, include 
> that
> instead.
> 
> ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/unarj265.exe
> 
> EDIT: Oops, it's possibly "non-free" (although I honestly have no 
> idea
> why). Debian now seems to prefer the full ARJ (from ARJ Russia on
> SF.net, which I vaguely think is the same one mentioned above as
> "ARCHIVER/ARJ"; at least FD's "UTIL" ARJ is apparently that one).
> 
> https://archive.debian.net/search?lang=km=names=unarj
> https://archive.debian.net/km/sarge/unarj
>
https://archive.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/a/arj/arj_3.10.21-2/arj.c
opyright
> 
> > ARCHIVER/ZOO
> 
> ZOO is another older archive format. The only two gotchas that I
> (barely) remember are that 2.01 was public domain yet lacked 
> "higher"
> compression (LZW, now patent expired). 2.10 had some weird clause
> about "don't charge more than $xyz" (against Compuserve?), but that
> apparently has been rescinded in recent years (as Linux distros
> nowadays sometimes include it). E.g. see below for Debian, which
> claims it's "public domain":
> 
>
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/z/zoo/zoo_2.10-28_
copyright
> 
> There's also (public domain) BOOZ, but that's only the unpacker. So
> you could also just include that (instead) if desired.
> 
> ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/booz20.zip
> 
> > Missing sources,
> >
> > BASE/COMMAND
> 
> AFAIK, it hasn't changed lately, as there is no maintainer. So just 
> grab this:
> 
>
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
0/pkgs/commands.zip
> 
> But I haven't looked closely (thousands of files, ugh!). The only
> dependency, AFAIK, is Suppl, but I think that's already included
> (unlike in 0.82pl3 sources).
> 
> Hmmm, seems "suppl.tgz" is included twice, but the (.tgz) CRC fails.
> Yeah, I vaguely remember that error, ugh!
> 
> So also grab Suppl from here:
> 
>
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
0/pkgs/suppls.zip
> 
> And no, AFAIK, the "newer" FreeCOM version is not stable, it still 
> had
> runtime bugs (for me) when built with OpenWatcom. That port was just
> never finalized, AFAIK.
> 
> > Yet to verify all packages on previously posted list in groups
> 
> Too much to do 
> 
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

[Jerome E. Shidel Jr.]

> On May 12, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo  wrote:

[..]

> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/commands.zip

[..]

Thanks, Jerome
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