Mail Archives: opendos/2008/10/10/01:34:05
On 9 Oct 2008 at 20:03, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The dosbook program does what for screen reader users like myself are bad
> screen writes which screen readers have trouble handling. Later I found
> the drdos documentation on line and tried doing what was in Chapter 25.
> That's when a friend and me found out we're probably going to need to find
> a compatible pci card if such exists. Most compatible cards are isa based
> and require exact matches for drivers or drdos never detects the card.
> We're using dhcp over here and tcp/ip with metrocast.com. That's going
> through a ditigal modem and router that isn't wireless. I figure lynx and
> mskermit should work fine once I get it set up as well as wput and wget
> and the ssh tools in djgpp but nettamer won't work without a dial up modem
> unless it's since been updated substantially. Right now, the bios/cmos
> recognizes an ethernet card in the machine but drdos setup doesn't find
> any ethernet card.
Well, I know it's an unpopular solution, but it may be easier to have
a sighted user put together a working net.cfg for you.
Could you give more details about what you are trying to do and what
hardware you've got?
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> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Arno Schuh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > who told you something about net.cfg?
> > I didn't read such an info right in this list.
> > To run most of the internet applications for DOS I know - except i. e.
> > Netamer, that afaIk. only connects by its own dial up routine - only needs a
> > paket driver like the mentioned rtspkt.com. There are others around for
> > other ethernet cards.
> > Of course you have to setup your browser i. e. the lynx.cfg properly, but
> > these help files are in english.
> > If your ethernet card is directly connected to the net (not via a router)
> > you should look for pepa. That's a pppoe driver software from Herbert
> > Hanewinkel. I don't know if it is still available. Because I use a router, I
> > didn''t spend a lot of time to test, how it works.
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> >
> > Arno
> >
> > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT shellworld DOT net> schrieb Am Dienstag, 30. September
> > 2008 10:23:
> >
> >> Okay, does anyone know where some good examples of net.cfg files can
> >> be found? I'm finding some, but when a page translates from russian
> >> to english my confidence is shaken in the quality of the translation.
> >
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