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["Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:09:32 +0100, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:

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> Namens Glenn McCorkle
> Verzonden: vrijdag 23 november 2007 3:46
> Aan: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Onderwerp: [arachne] Re: ADSL - Broadband connections

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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:16:06 WET, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:

> <snip>

>> With one of the ethernet cards was a DOS driver (realtech) on the CD.
>> But, installing the card for DOS failed because LSL.COM is missing.

>> Any idea how to carry on?

>> Regards, Bastiaan

> So..... Bastiaan.....

> What you need is the actual packet driver for your realtek NIC ... not the
> ODI driver for netware ODI work stations.

> Check the dir structure of the CD you have and see if there's a \pctdrvr\
> subdir or something like it.

> ***********

> I have no idea what is the difference beween a local network and netware or
> what NIC or ODI means...
> But anyway, a pctdrvr directory was found and pktdrv.com has been used. But
> pktdrv.com signaled that the program could not detect the new LAN card. It
> uses automatic detection for the Fast Ethernet Controller Provider PCI
> 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapters and aborted installation of the card.
> Brand of the card = Eminent EM1028 Rev 2 with a realtek RTL8139D chip set.

> *****
> The card is 100% functional in Win98 though... although we had a two man
> party for several hours to install this card in windows. That should have
> been several minutes with this plug and play :-((( thing.

> So: I am in for any good advice on the matter

> Regards, Bastiaan

I think this is the packet driver you need......

http://cisnet.com/glennmcc/rtl8139.zip

load it like so.....

rtspkt.com 0x60

You will need to boot directly into DOS ... _not_ in a dosbox inside of
win98... and _not_ via shutting-down win98 and restarting in msdos mode.

Hit F8 during boot-up and choose to start with command prompt only.
(or edit msdos.sys so that you go directly to the DOS command prompt)

--- in msdos.sys ---

BootGUI=0

___________________________

The reason for this is the fact that after booting into win98...
the win98 NIC driver does not free-up the card when win98 is shutdown.

The NIC card gets 'locked-out' and is unusable in DOS until you
power-down/power-up the machine.

Even a Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot is _not_ sufficient to free-it-up.

Power-down/power-up/F8/command prompt only is the only way to get use
of the NIC in pure-DOS.

Now.... you can load the DOS packet driver via.... 'rtspkt.com 0x60'

Once you've got it loaded... you are now ready to run Arachne using
these settings......

--- in arachne.cfg ---

[profile]
Profile ara-nic.ACF
Connection READY
Hangup NULL

[dialer]
Dialer NULL

[tcp/ip]
IP_Address WATTCP
IP_Grab IP address set to
NameServer 
AltNameServer 
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG
___________________________________

---- ppptcp.cfg ---
my_ip = dhcp
netmask = 255.255.255.0
gateway = 0.0.0.0
sockdelay=60
hostname=arachne
mss=1600
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