I see, your onboard NIC is most probably based on some custom variant of the chip. This makes things tricky...
Then I'm afraid there won't be any magic possible - either you would need to replace the motherboard with something having more slots, or connect one of the network/sound things via a serial/parallel port (Covox, PLIP, SLIP..) agreeing to poor performances, or simply accept to have either no sound or no networking :) cheers, Mateusz On 11/11/2015 11:59, Don Flowers wrote: > Mateusz, the packet driver works very well on my PCI Intel card but not > on my onboard, I have googled myself crazy searching for a working > packet driver. Linux had a problem with this card a few years back and > the result was a special e1000e driver, but I have no idea how to > recompile it (is is even possible?) to work in DOS/FreeDOS > > Eric, I have bought 3 PCIe sound cards advertised as DOS/SB compatible > and none have worked. Perhaps we need a list of working PCIe cards? > > I have a MB bookmarked on ebay, maybe I should take on a winter project > and build my own machine? > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr > <mailto:mate...@viste.fr>> wrote: > > Besides being full of crooks, eBay still can be a good source of > affordable hardware, but it requires a bit of patience. Just looking > now, I see there is a bunch of complete pentium systems with ISA slots > listed at below 10 Euros. Example: > > > http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Mainboard-Elpina-9820-Pentium-II-266Mhz-2x64MB-RAM-Vintage-/272039197665?hash=item3f56ccbbe1:g:21IAAOSwAYtWPgip > > (not my auction, not related to me, just first thing that got into > my hands) > > Of course it all depends where you live, shipping can be costly for > goods that need to cross an ocean. > > Anyway, had you the occasion to test the Intel Gigabit packet driver I > suggested earlier? I'm curious to know whether it works on your onbord > LAN card. > > cheers, > Mateusz > > > > On 10/11/2015 22:42, Don Flowers wrote: > > For the past two years in the spring summer and fall I have alerted my > > local FB friends to be on the lookout for older PC''s and nothing yet > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Karen Lewellen > <klewel...@shellworld.net <mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net> > > <mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net > <mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net>>> wrote: > > > > Additionally, if you live in an area with an active freecycle > community, > > quality machines can be yours for free. > > Granted I am in a major city, but I find even p4 units given > > away. the > > goal is keeping items out of the landfill, so those using the > > service would > > rather pass them on than throw them away. > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, patrick wrote: > > > > > old machines are cheap: > > > I find them all the time at garage sales. > > > I pay an average of $5 for a tower of any age. > > > Sometimes people just give them to me to get rid of them. > > > More often, they just throw them away. > > > Newegg sells reconditioned machines, usually with Windows 7 > > > for 75 - 200$ and there are lots of other companies doing > the same. > > > > > > > > > On 11/09/2015 07:07 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > >> Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard > Intel > > 82567LM-3 > > >> for which there seems to be no DOS option for > connectivity and > > the sound > > >> is HD and unrecognisableed by either MPXPlay or Mplayer, > I have > > at least > > >> one game that will throw sound out the onboard speaker > (Empong). > > >> > > >> As for buying a retro machine, have you checked the prices > > lately? In the > > >> past year alone a PII or PIII with one ISA slot has > doubled in > > price to an > > >> average of $300-400. I do have a couple of Compaq Armada > > laptops that have > > >> awsome sound and also connect via PCMCIA netcard. I am > trying > > to get a > > >> working Desktop PC that is capable of running FreeDOS > and still > > will run > > >> Linux and/or Windows. It's an elusive beast. :^) > > >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
