Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! 1) Make sure that you have the latest version of the driver, v3.40 http://sonic.net/support/nic_drivers/nway/RTSPKT/ 2) I included media type switch in the batch file that loads the driver. It won't do any harm and it might help: Rtson.bat RTSPKT.COM 0x60 -M AUTO 3) By loading the driver from the batch file instead of from Autoexec.bat you can turn the connection to the internet on and off. This bat will turn it off: Rtsoff.bat RTSPKT.COM -U 4) Here are some more tips from FreeDOS forum. >Lester: How about specifying bus # and device # ? RTSPKT.COM 0x60 -M AUTO 2 3 >Eric Auer: I would recommend not to use "2 3", because it only saves a fraction of a second, maybe even less than a millisecond. Using autodetection for the PCI thing is better. With the 2 3, the driver only works when the card is plugged into exactly that PCI slot. The option only exists to let you manually select one particular card in a case where several identical cards are present in the same computer. >Eric Auer: The 100full versus auto option is a different story: RTSPKT.COM 0x60 -M AUTO 2 3 RTSPKT.COM 0x60 -M 10FULL 2 3 RTSPKT.COM 0x60 -M 100FULL 2 3 Detection of the availability of duplex and of the line speed may take a moment (how long?). Only using 10half would be safe, every other choice can conceivably fail when you have incompatible hardware on the other end of the line. I think it cannot happen that devices can do only 100mbps but cannot do 10mbps (but am not sure about that), so always using 10mbps is safer. And you probably are in a situation were all other components would not gain speed from using 100mbps anyway. >Lester: Does the packet driver "rtspkt.com" load itself automatically into high memory or should this be done from the command line? >Eric Auer: rtspkt does not load itself high, but as with all dma related drives, it is possible that it even does not work properly when you load it high manually. Please try... this can also depend on whether you use emm386 or rather umbpci, and whether you use the emm386 options novds or vds. >Bernd: EMM386 is a possible issue with loading packet driver high, you'd have to try for yourself how packet drivers behave then. >Lester: I have umbpci in place of emm386 and I kept loading rtspkt high for the last few days (and then browse/email with Arachne). Most of the time the driver loaded without problems. However, lately I have encountered a few freeze-ups after attempting to load rtspkt high, so unless you are dos memory expert, the recommended method should probably be to load the driver to conventional memory. >Lester: I have two files of different size: rtspkt.com - 9 KB rtspkt.com - 33 KB The smaller one was downloaded somewhere from Hewlett Packard website and the larger one from here: http://sonic.net/support/nic_drivers/nway/RTSPKT/ The large file probably has debugging code, but who knows. Both show version 3.40 and load ok. >Bernd: Likely compression by UPX (upx.sf.net, v2.02?) or Apack. Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --