OK, here we have another off-topic post, but it does involve FreeDOS. I put FreeDOS on an old computer going into a business that still uses DOS stations for their networked main business application. But the business has changed hands, and all documentation and software installation disks are missing.
The problem is with the network setup. The network software is Desk To Desk, a small network client-server product made by CBIS, which went bankrupt in 1994. I have figured out how to use the installation program from an existing directory on the hard drive, but have not been able to successfully configure for the installed network card, which is a popular vintage 3Com ISA card, the 3C509 (but which is not specified to be NE-2000 compatible). I would like to be able to figure out more about what existing drivers to select for various cards, and ideally I would like to figure out how to manually use a driver other than the ones offered in their setup list. (Unlike the MS-DOS Network Client, they don't offer an option to manually install a driver (NDIS2) not offered natively.) I have just a couple clues to go on. The setup routine refers to their drivers as NetBIOS drivers. The list of drivers offered by Setup is thus: 3C503, 3C523, ARCSM, BUSS, BUSS-MC, GENERIC, N-ETHER, NE-2000. The installed driver for any selection is an EXE (e.g. NXNE2000.EXE). The instructions for how to choose a driver for a given card is in the lost document "Appendix A of the System Administrator Manual." I hope to find out that they were not doing something completely proprietary at the driver level! Can anyone shed further light on this situation? --John Hupp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
