I am afraid I do not follow you.
I use DOS exclusively, and spend several hours a day on line using DOS
exclusively. Sometimes from my DOS desktop, sometimes via sshdos, but I
am using nothing but DOS.
hardly meaningless to me.
Still, since going online is indeed a critical part of computing, why has
not the freedos community worked on creating its own browser and ssh
tools?
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote:
Ok, it may seem like an archaeological work to look for dos eth.
driver and in fact meaningless sense since you go online with other OS,
But in using dos/freedos I believe that the possibility of going online
is a basic problem. And this regardless of the limitations of browsers
such as links and arachne which are well known.
otherwise freedos will
be a limited program, at least for common users
Il 20.01.2021 01:41
Karen Lewellen ha scritto:
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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[1]
I remember seeing Glenn McCorkle's latest Arachne update on
www.glennmcc.org [2] 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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