Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hello Lawrence, https://code.launchpad.net/~dosemu2/+archive/ubuntu/ppa http://ppa.launchpad.net/dosemu2/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dosemu2/ might have some package downloads for ARM64 Debian, but in Ubuntu, you would add the PPA location to your package manager config and the package manager wou

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user
Hello eric, I’m satisfied with the Orca screen reader under Linux so far. Orca is the best screen reader for working with in Gnome and/or the Raspberry Pi desktop. For command line only, there’s Speakup, but Orca works well under Linux for my needs. When I used to use Windows, I used NVDA, and

Re: [Freedos-user] A good USB Driver for FreeDOS would be a big asset

2024-09-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user
Hi there, On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Orson Yancey via Freedos-user wrote: ... I have been working with the Panasonic USB drivers ... ... But the drivers are not robust. ... ... It would be a big plus to FreeDOS, if someone could locate or even develop USB drivers that are robust ... ... I don't kn

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Lawrence, I’m using the Orca screen reader on Raspberry Pi OS How satisfied are you with Orca? DOSBox doesn’t support sending output to the terminal... I’ve heard DOSEMU has this option, but I don’t have a Linux computer that can support it. Actually Raspberry Pi OS is a version of

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Tomas By via Freedos-user
Hello, You say you can enter DOS commands, so then you should not need to do any further installation. But generally, all you need to do to install DOS is to boot and then use the command "sys X:" where X: is the drive you want to install to. If by "installing FreeDOS" you mean getting all the s

[Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user
Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to seek advice regarding FreeDOS and its accessibility, particularly for blind users like myself who rely on a screen reader. I’m using the Orca screen reader on Raspberry Pi OS, and I also have access to a Mac with the VoiceOver screen reader. I’m interested in

[Freedos-user] A good USB Driver for FreeDOS would be a big asset

2024-09-23 Thread Orson Yancey via Freedos-user
Hello Folks, Under MS-DOS 6.22, I have been working with the Panasonic USB drivers from www.dosdays.co.uk: usbaspi.sys and di1000dd.sys These USB drivers are a big improvement in attaching flash drives and USB hard drive external drives to a DOS machine. These drivers are limited to using USB Ma

[Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-23 Thread Orson Yancey via Freedos-user
Hello Folks, I have been a fan of MS-DOS since about Version 5.0. I still use MS-DOS 6.22 almost daily: WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 123 v. 2.4. I have decided to try to install Free DOS on some Pentium III machines. I would like to make a suggestion of information to add to www.FreeDos.org: It would

Re: [Freedos-user] 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller

2024-09-23 Thread Daniel Doran via Freedos-user
Hi, and thank you! I actually got this solution about 10 minutes ago just by trial and error! It is working now! I was in the middle of typing a reply when I saw this notification. Thank you for replying though! On Mon, 23 Sept 2024 at 15:32, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 23 Sep 20

Re: [Freedos-user] 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller

2024-09-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user
Hi there, On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Daniel Doran via Freedos-user wrote: Okay... so I am 100% certain the packet driver I need to use is E100PKT as my integrated NIC is an intel and the device ID is 1039, in the E1100PKT.TXT (attached) it has my device ID listed as supported. Yay. However I can't g

Re: [Freedos-user] 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller

2024-09-23 Thread Daniel Doran via Freedos-user
Okay... so I am 100% certain the packet driver I need to use is E100PKT as my integrated NIC is an intel and the device ID is 1039, in the E1100PKT.TXT (attached) it has my device ID listed as supported. Yay. However I can't get it to work. I added this line in my FDAUTO.BAT file: E100PKT.COM /i

[Freedos-user] 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller

2024-09-23 Thread Daniel Doran via Freedos-user
Hey, I am new to FreeDOS and I am trying to get Networking working. I have read a lot of how-tos, edited FDAUTO.BAT but I still can't get it to work using packet drivers E1000PKT.com or E100PKT.com I am not certain I am even using the right packet driver but I THINK I am... (downloaded both packet