Make sure your net.cfg setting are specific to rtgeodi. Usually rtgbodi is
default. Also rearrange frame hierarchy; there are several odipkt driver
you may have to hunt try way back machine
On Saturday, August 18, 2018, Bertho Grandpied via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Had anyone been successfully DOS-networking using the RT Gigabit adapter
> in Subj, I will
> humbly take their lessons. My new board (Biostar A68MD-Pro with AMD A10
> CPU) has embedded Realtek 8168 GB ethernet controller, for which I sought a
> DOS "packet driver".
>
> At Realtek's site, no packet driver, but they do offer an "ODI" driver ("
> rtgeodi.com") : which I got, and then ran in turn the usual trilogy of
> TSRs:
>
> > LSL
> > RTGEODI
> > ODIPKT 1 ; comment : alternatively, PKT2ODI /B:2
>
> This "trilogy" installs "successfully" - at least, each TSR in turn while
> installing itself reports success.
>
> In conjunction with an appropriate NET.CFG... and a TCP/IP network stack
> such as Trumpet's, or built-in to DOS networking programs... it should've
> been a piece of cake, in my experience, but alas ! *None work* ! Not any
> type datagram seems to go in/out on the wire...
>
> I know the adapter itself is "good" (works as designed in, sorry to have
> to mention it, Windows 10).
> Also, the Realtek test program in DOS sees, accesses the adapter and local
> tests pass OK.
>
> At this point I'm lost. Either the, Realtek provided ODI driver doesn't in
> fact support the flavour of embedded adapter I have got, could there be a
> "secret sauce" required to initialise the adapter ?
>
>
> Ah ! I also tried the well known "net boot disk" (an image, run through
> Gru4DOS, since this new machine - of course - doesn't have floppy).
> Interestingly, /it/ didn't work either, though it identified the adapter
> correctly; significant, for the net bootdisk uses another approach
> altogether than what I have sketched above, namely it tries to install
> MS-DOS (NDIS) networking. Didn't work either :=(
>
> I am sure a number of people reading this letter are (much) more used to
> fixing this kind of problems than I will ever be. Hoping for a heads-up (or
> just tell me it won't work, so I don't lose my time and last hair on this
> enigma)...
>
> TYiA
>
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