> As the network cards will belong to customers it can't > be chosen by my application. > I need to be sure that FreeDOS can take care of most LAN cards.
Hi Basudeb, I assume this means that you want a single boot disk which already contains many network card drivers. For this, Linux might be the most flexible solution. For Windows, drivers are almost always included when you buy a network card, but Windows still has to install and activate the drivers, which might be a bit tricky in a "readonly" install like WinPE. You should check http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/ for a boot disk which already includes many drivers and which also auto- selects a suitable driver based on PCI bus scan results... A WinXP/PE project to create a similar disk with Windows can be found on http://www.veder.com/nwdskpe/ - you need a licensed Windows to create such a disk, obviously. The DOS NwDsk is available in 1440, 1680 and 2880 kBytes variants, the latter is mostly for creating bootable CDROM. There are also add-ons for NwDsk: VNC viewer, print server, RDP client, Arachne browser/ftpclient/mailclient, ftp/webserver. There is also a list of included drivers on the NwDsk page. Enjoy! Eric PS: You should try PCISLEEP if you want a really small PCI bus scan tool. Let me know if you encounter devices which PCISLEEP does not recognize. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/pcisleep/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
