Hi Tom,
I have no idea about pure freedos, but I can use the links browser for DOS
in its full graphics mode to go on line in pure ms dos.
It is not my preference, there are things about the browser which do not
speak well, and it does not seem to support cookies.
Still, I have no issues doing google searches, or reading some local
news sites.
If Links for DOS supported Cookies I would use it more, mainly I use
sshdos to a shell service instead.
Never tried Arachnid for the same lack of speech issues.
Just my take,
Karen
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to ask a question about dos ethernet driver. I think
it's one of the most satisfying
thing using dos to go online. You know
the problem: is to find ad load the driver you need,
especially for
laptops.
Ad it's very hard. For example I still use an old Acer aspire
1300 ad I load the Via fetpkt
ethernet driver ( thanks to George
Potthast driver collection) and it work fine; so another
Acer with
Broadcom B44 odi. But maybe it is luck!
Now I am trying to load a diver
for a toshiba satellite with Marvell Yukon eth.card: I found
the driver
(yukodi driver) and it would seem to work, and system says it loaded odi
packet driver and so on, but neither Arachne no Link go up on internet.
I have a wattcp.cfg (My_ip = dhcp), as usual, but they fail.
( The
laptop is good and goes up on internet with Slacko/puppy - I've
partitioned HD).
Any ideas? Or you think it's now too tiring and
useless to go online with dos?
(I use pure freedos 1.2 and 1.3.)
Thanks
for your interest.
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I remember seeing Glenn McCorkle's latest Arachne update on www.glennmcc.org in
March 2013 but never downloaded it because I woudn't have been able to use it.
I have never been online with present computer using FreeDOS, haven't tried any
other DOS; now online with NetBSD.
Here is what NetBSD says about my Ethernet, from /var/run/dmesg.boot :
re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet (rev.
0x06)
re0: interrupting at msix2 vec 0
re0: Ethernet address d4:3d:7e:97:17:e2
re0: using 256 tx descriptors
So I use FreeDOS very infrequently.
I wonder if there is any way I could go online with FreeDOS using PXE boot.
I would be very limited in what I could do online with FreeDOS, but it would be
nice to prove it can be done.
Tom
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