Eric sent this to me off-list, but this seems like it should be part of the discussion.
>From a license standpoint, the Crynwr package drivers should already be under an open source license. I think we already include them. I don't know of other open source network drivers .. if you know of any, please point them out to me and I'll link to them and/or mirror them so we can use them. But if a driver is not open source software, it should not be included in FreeDOS. Even any "not open source" drivers that have a term that says you can distribute it - these are always tricky and we've been stung by those kinds of closed licenses in the past. Not excited to go through that again. Jim On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 2:50 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi Andrea, > > well Georg also has a shareware USB driver (which only > works for a limited time after each boot unless you pay) > so I would expect his network driver collection ot have > no overly illegal drivers, but I also miss source codes > so we would probably not bundle those with the distro. > > Jim, how about CRYNWR and other free/open driver sets, > would there be enough available to auto-install at least > the common cases (think rtl8139) in a FreeDOS package? > > Regards, Eric > > > > > I found nicscan.exe some time ago at > > http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm, which also contains a good > > list of ethernet pci drivers. > > I don't know if they are > > free/open. > > regards, andrea > > > > Il 17.03.2021 19:54 Eric Auer ha scritto: > > > > > >>> I have three laptops with freedos with pci ethernet cards (realtek, > > Via and Broadcom) and with Nicscan I found the drivers and they work > > very well. > >> > >> Is nicscan for DOS? Are realtek, via and broadcom DOS > > drivers free/open? > >> > >> Regards, Eric > > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
