Hi, good point, its good to have drivers for modern hardware! > f.e. we need driver for sound cards, printers and wlan-cards.
I disagree on the WLAN cards. Even with 32bit operating system, LAN is way better (fast, stable) than WLAN, just get a cable ;-). > At Dr-DOS-forum (http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/) > some people discussed, how to bring new drivers to DOS... > ideas are: > *porting from Linux > *using windows drivers > *using f.e. existing QV's sound driver and write new one My recommendation would be using the AC97 driver from MPXPLAY and code from the "grab SB16 data from DOS and forward it to /dev/dsp" module of DOSEMU and create a DOS driver which can be plugged into JEMM386 (for the I/O grabbing on the SB16 end) based on that. Using for sound drivers from Linux or Windows would be a problem because those drivers are complex and make use of services of the 32bit OS for which they are. By the way, I have a fragment for PCMCIA access around (from the Deskwork guy). One could combine that with code from a RAMDISK to create a driver which lets you access the first partition on for example a compact flash drive plugged via PCMCIA. In a related idea, one could modify the XDMA driver to allow (PIO or DMA) access to LBA- sized drives of up to 128 GB or even more BEFORE loading the kernel, in a metakern style chain of loading modules. Then the kernel will be able to access the whole disk size even if the BIOS is old and only gets part of the disk. So far some quick suggestions from my side, feel free to post (in a spam-proof way) on the forum. I myself prefer to use discussion systems where new postings reach me automatically, such as this mailing list here :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
