Ethernet under DOS?

[gt40]

Originally posted by Wombat
I was afraid of that. Xircom tends to be weird with their Linux drivers.

Actually, the Suse startup disks had no problem with this card.
I just couldn't mount the nfs drive to install the complete distro.

[VJ]

Originally posted by gt40
VJ - looks like a nice distro, however, they don't seem to have support for my NIC card.

OK...

In the DOS option, I'd suggest using DR DOS 6 or higher. There is an extrodinary memorydriver present that moves most TSR to upper memory. On http://www.bootdisk.com , you can find different bootdisks; here you can find DR-DOS 7: http://www.drdos.net/download.htm


Jörg

[Jammrock]

The Instructions

Enter your laptop BIOS and set the PC Card (PCMCIA) type to PCIC (most laptops will have options for CardBus, PCIC and Auto Select). If your laptop doesn't have this option, we can only hope it works. If you can't get into your BIOS, tell me the model and I'll see what I can do. Usually you press the F2, Delete or Escape key at boot up to get in. I would guess this is an old laptop so you won't have to worry ACPI toggling.

Your DOS boot disk will need several additional files to work. You will need, in the root of A: (they should all be in the MS-DOS 6 disks, or found in various places):

DIS_PKT.DOS
HIMEM.SYS
EMM386.EXE
NETBIND.COM
PROTMAN.EXE
PROTMAN.DOS

Go here and get the DOS driver:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=5&strTypes=BIO%2CDRV%2CARC%2CUTL&ProductID=837&OSFullName=DOS&submit=Go%21

Driver 2. Don't worry about the firmware update unless it doesn't work.

Extract the contents of the downloaded file with WinZip, PkZip, WinRAR or your tool of preference. Copy the Xircom directory in \MSLANMAN.DOS\DRIVERS\ETHERNET\ to the DOS boot disk, so there is now an A:\XIRCOM dir on the floppy with the files PROTOCOL.INI and XCEMNDIS.EXE in the folder.

Append A:\CONFIG.SYS with the following lines:

device = protman.dos /I:a:\xircom
device = a:\xircom\XCEMNDIS.EXE
device = himem.sys /testmemff
device = emm386.exe noems x=c000-dfff
dos = high,umb
devicehigh = dis_pkt.dos

Boot to floppy and see how it goes. To map a network drive with DOS, the command is:

NET USE X: \\server\share

The share will have to be open to Everyone to use.

If this doesn't work there are a few more tricks we can try, but this should work.

Jammrock

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by VJ
If you only need the network to transfer/communicate, the Coyote Linux still looks one of the best solutions: you don't need to install it. Just download the disk-generator, generate a single floppy disk, and this disk contains the basic version. No changes to existing partitions, etc. !

It basically is a bootdisk that happens to boot Linux...
Terminals are present on it, as is the functionality for network and accessing fat partitions...

Jörg

Can you run a SAMBA server off of this disk? If so, how?

[gt40]

VJ - thanks, I've tried some of these boot disks - no luck, but the problem may just be my inexperience.

Jammrock - Thanks for the help, I'll try when I get home

I am indebted to all of you for your time.

Pat

[VJ]

Originally posted by Kooldino
Can you run a SAMBA server off of this disk? If so, how?

That I don't know... Sharing NFS ought to be possible but samba... Hmm... it will depend if the sambapackage is included; but I'm no linux expert...
I assume the smb deamon is smbd, if it is installed it should be possible to try this command to see what it can do...

Jörg

[gt40]

Re: The Instructions

Originally posted by Jammrock
Enter your laptop BIOS and set the PC Card (PCMCIA) type to PCIC (most laptops will have options for CardBus, PCIC and Auto Select). If your laptop doesn't have this option, we can only hope it works. If you can't get into your BIOS, tell me the model and I'll see what I can do. Usually you press the F2, Delete or Escape key at boot up to get in. I would guess this is an old laptop so you won't have to worry ACPI toggling.

Your DOS boot disk will need several additional files to work. You will need, in the root of A: (they should all be in the MS-DOS 6 disks, or found in various places):

DIS_PKT.DOS
HIMEM.SYS
EMM386.EXE
NETBIND.COM
PROTMAN.EXE
PROTMAN.DOS

Go here and get the DOS driver:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=5&strTypes=BIO%2CDRV%2CARC%2CUTL&ProductID=837&OSFullName=DOS&submit=Go%21

Driver 2. Don't worry about the firmware update unless it doesn't work.

Extract the contents of the downloaded file with WinZip, PkZip, WinRAR or your tool of preference. Copy the Xircom directory in \MSLANMAN.DOS\DRIVERS\ETHERNET\ to the DOS boot disk, so there is now an A:\XIRCOM dir on the floppy with the files PROTOCOL.INI and XCEMNDIS.EXE in the folder.

Append A:\CONFIG.SYS with the following lines:

device = protman.dos /I:a:\xircom
device = a:\xircom\XCEMNDIS.EXE
device = himem.sys /testmemff
device = emm386.exe noems x=c000-dfff
dos = high,umb
devicehigh = dis_pkt.dos

Boot to floppy and see how it goes. To map a network drive with DOS, the command is:

NET USE X: \\server\share

The share will have to be open to Everyone to use.

If this doesn't work there are a few more tricks we can try, but this should work.

Jammrock

Finally got to try this, everything seems to work untill I get the following from pktdrv:
Error 7361: ipx or netbios must be running in order to load the network.

I've tried getting netbios to install but had no luck.
Any suggestions??

Thanks again