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["Bastiaan Edelman" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Namens Glenn McCorkle
Verzonden: zondag 25 november 2007 19:52
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Onderwerp: [arachne] Re: ADSL - Broadband connections

> 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.

I did a new search on the CD that came with the ethernet card and discovered
rtspkt.com
This is the same driver as I found at Glenn's site (but an older version).

It installs without problems, signaling:

Line speed 100Mbps
Full duplex
System: (345)86 Processor PCI bus Two 8259s
Packet driver Interrupt is 0x60
Interrupt number is 0xA
I/O port is 0x7000
My Ethernet address is 00:E0:4C:40:E8:96

The installation command: C:\RTSPKT 0x60 was given in direct DOS mode...
win98 is not started by GUI=0

> *****
> 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.
This does only mean that the hardware is fine. Windows is not used for
Arachne and Arachne is not running in a DOS box.

> 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'

!!!!!! Very good to give the above warnings !!!!!!

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
_____________________________


These settings are introduced to Arachne 1.90 that was formerly used for
dial in service, but...

After 'initializing' TCP/IP ==> ''unable to initialize TCP/IP'' :-((

The accessible drives are: A: C: and D: should the network not been shown? A
second computer was on the house net and the ADSL connected to the internet.

Regards, Bastiaan
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