Omar, Thank you! In fact, I got my ODI drivers from your site. I will try the NDIS method. Again, appreciate your website!
Best Regards, Bill Allen On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM Omar Yabar via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > use ndis driver instead, is more modern than the odi driver,.it works for > me with laptops of 10gen intel processors and the same Realtek chip, more > info in my website www.packetdriversdos.net ;) > > Yahoo Mail: busca, organiza, toma el control de tu buzón > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=NativePlacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_EmailSignatureGrowth_YahooMail:Search,Organize,Conquer&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000945&af_sub5=OrganizeConquer__Static_> > > El vie., 28 de feb. de 2025 a la(s) 6:43 p. m., Bill Allen via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> escribió: > Greetings everyone! It may be that I have undertaken a futile endeavor, > but I have been trying to get a Zimaboard with dual Realtek 8168 NICs > working on FreeDOS. I must say that for an ancient IT guy, this has been a > blast from the past having to go back to the days of loading up ODI packet > drivers. However, I am just about to give up. I load up in the following > sequence and this much at least works, or seems to. > > LSL > RTGHODI.COM <http://rtghodi.com/> (asks me to select which of the two > cards it finds, to I tell it the one the network cable is plugged into, NIC > 1) > ODIPKT.COM <http://odipkt.com/> 0 96 > > No errors at this point and it seems I have successfully loaded the packet > driver into memory. The load up seemed happy enough with the settings in > the NET.CFG. > (It took a lot of work to get all the files and information together to > get this far! LOL) > > After that, I try for DHCP.EXE from the mTCP distribution and get the > following: > *Init: could not set up packet driver* > *Could not initialize TCP/IP stack* > And then a message from FDNET.BAT (I think) that the Network is > unreachable/unavailable, obviously as a result of the TCP/IP stack not > being initialized. > > Am I pursuing an exercise in futility trying to get DOS networking going > with what I presume to be very modern NICs? If so, not a huge loss but I > feel like I am so very close. > > By the way, I am running FreeDOS 1.4-r2 with the very recent mTCP that is > included. Everything networking with mTCP does work perfectly with the same > in a Virtualbox setup. > > If y'all have read this far, thanks very much for your time! > > Best Regards, > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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