[ltp] 760XL - DOS NIC Driver - Slightly off topic...

[James McKenzie]

Adam:

I liked the RealPort cards when they were available. Don't know if they 
are still being made. Nice support and they worked in the 760E(D) series 
of IBM Thinkpads. Were supposed to be NE2000 compatible at the register 
level.

James McKenzie


Adam Southerland wrote:

> Here is a question that might be Thinkpad realted...
>
> I've tried for about 1 year to get a DOS NIC Driver loaded and usable.
> I have two NICs:
> 1: Encore ENP832-TX-PC 32-BIT CARDBUS 10/100 AUTO NEG ETHERNET CARD
> 2: IBM EtherJet 10/100 CardBus Adapter (Messed up dongle, but works)
>
> Both Cards work in Windows and Linux (I use Linux 99% of the time)
>
> I wish to make the Encore NIC (RTL8139) work in DOS. So far I can make 
> it detect it... When it trys to get Network access it just stalls 
> (like it doesn't know how to handle the data).
>
> Now, today I just got the IBM Card to work. I had to add a few 
> commandline parameters:
> CACHE=32 IRQ=11 ISAIRQ
>
> The Encore Card doesn't have the ability to change these other options 
> through DOS...
> I have tried latest drivers and multiple ways to load them.
>
> My questions:
> Does anyone know if the 760XL is unique when it comes to NICs, 
> CardBus, and DOS
> Where or what do I need to go/do to get this fixed? (another NIC 
> perhaps?)
> Is there another NIC that is better than the two above... No Dongles 
> and I guess no RealTek Chipsets.. (For Linux/Windows/DOS)
>
> Why DOS:
> Short; because it should be able to
> Long; to image it simple - Ghost and PowerQuest run smooth (Mondo 
> doesn't like Slack and TAR Gziped files aren't easy to restore... And 
> I wanted to play alittle bit with some DOS networking stuff.
>
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