Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Mar 15, 2021, at 7:12 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > > If that means that fdnet knows which driver WOULD match > a given PCI ID, could it DISPLAY that info and let the > user dig up the recommended driver manually? What does > the current fdnet version do in such cases, silently > l

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If that means that fdnet knows which driver WOULD match a given PCI ID, could it DISPLAY that info and let the user dig up the recommended driver manually? What does the current fdnet version do in such cases, silently load another driver in the hope that the hardware would actually be virtua

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread Dean Galloway
Hi Andrea, OK, just at a glance, you already have the functioning packet driver when you load ODIPKT, the ODI driver lists the MAC address, line speed, etc. What it appears FDNET is doing is attempting to identify and load an additional packet driver, using the configuration in MTCP.CFG withi

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, Unfortunately, there are only a few actual drivers that can be included in the FDNET package. This greatly limits the usefulness of FDNET. However, the supplied drivers work well in VirtualBox and VWware. Although not tested, it should support some versions of QEMU. There was a recent upd

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread andrea936
Thanks for your interest: this is what appears when I load my ethernet packet driver: _2 DRIVE(S) AVAILABLE. _ _NOVELL LINK SUPPORT LAYER FOR DOS ODI V2.20 (960401) _ _(C) COPYRIGHT 1990 - 1996, BY NOVELL, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. _ _BUFFERS 6 1600 _ _THE CONFIGURATION FILE USED WAS "C:BROAD

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-15 Thread Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
Hi Jon, Very intriguing. What makes you so certain it's a HPA as opposed to just reducing the disk capacity? My understanding was that HPA areas were used for internal drive housekeeping, or perhaps for manufacturer diagnostics, but since by definition the host can't see it (otherwise it wouldn'

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-15 Thread Jon Brase
On 3/13/21 5:42 AM, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user wrote: As I said before, I suspect what's happening is that the adapter is detecting something that the BIOS is doing while trying to figure out the capacity of the disk, and "helpfully" setting up an HPA on the drive (and doing so so aggressivel

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread philippe Verite via Freedos-user
Thank you (merci) . I ll try to make the same bug but on the other side with my freedos vm . My last freedos install is bad. No Pack install. The prob not come from freedos. Jim h say that it is not make for vms. The pb. Come from users . Than i can use it and tell you about fdnet.bat . Virtualb

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread Dean Galloway
Hello Andrea, Perhaps you can post some screenshots of the messages you are receiving when the packet driver loads? Thanks, Dean. On 3/15/2021 12:28 AM, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote: *hi at all * *in freedos1.3 there is in C:/fdos/bin the program fdnet.bat. **Ok: wiki.fredos.org explains that

[Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread andrea936
hi at all in freedos1.3 there is in C:/fdos/bin the program fdnet.bat. OK: WIKI.FREDOS.ORG EXPLAINS THAT IT IS A PROGRAM FOR VIRTUALBOX, AND THAT IN CASE YOU HAVE A FREEDOS WITHOUT VIRTUALBOX YOU HAVE TO WRITE A LINE FIRST WITH YOUR ETHERNET PACKET DRIVER. Well, i don't have virtualbox and i