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
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