Getting online from within dosemu

Getting online from within dosemu

[Stegozor]

Hi,

My latest obsession is Arachne, the GPL'ed DOS browser/suite. It 
installs quite fine under dosemu (1.34 compiled from source under Ubuntu 
6.06). I think I have the right packet manager for my 3Com Etherlink XL 
10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) network interface. The problem is that 
when I launch the packet driver I get
C:\PACKDRIV>3C90XPD

3Com EtherLink PCI Bus Master Packet Driver v5.2.6
(C) Copyright 1999 3Com Corp.  All rights reserved.

Error: No EISA nor PCI bus were found.

(Under 1.33 I was getting a strange message and dosemu crashed, but with 
1.34 things seem to have been improved).

Note that I also tried with Dosbox 0.63, and I get exactly the same 
result (no pci bus...). Therefore, my question is to know how to get 
online from within dosemu. Is there a (if possible, an easy, 
understandable by a mortal) solution?

TIA.

Re: Getting online from within dosemu

[Alain M.]

Have a look at Networking using DOSEMU:
<http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/README/1.1.3.7/x991.html>

Alain

Stegozor escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> My latest obsession is Arachne, the GPL'ed DOS browser/suite. It 
> installs quite fine under dosemu (1.34 compiled from source under Ubuntu 
> 6.06). I think I have the right packet manager for my 3Com Etherlink XL 
> 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) network interface. The problem is that 
> when I launch the packet driver I get
> C:\PACKDRIV>3C90XPD
> 
> 3Com EtherLink PCI Bus Master Packet Driver v5.2.6
> (C) Copyright 1999 3Com Corp.  All rights reserved.
> 
> Error: No EISA nor PCI bus were found.
> 
> (Under 1.33 I was getting a strange message and dosemu crashed, but with 
> 1.34 things seem to have been improved).
> 
> Note that I also tried with Dosbox 0.63, and I get exactly the same 
> result (no pci bus...). Therefore, my question is to know how to get 
> online from within dosemu. Is there a (if possible, an easy, 
> understandable by a mortal) solution?
> 
> TIA.

Re: Getting online from within dosemu

[Bart Oldeman]

On 11/21/06, Stegozor <stegozor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My latest obsession is Arachne, the GPL'ed DOS browser/suite. It
> installs quite fine under dosemu (1.34 compiled from source under Ubuntu
> 6.06). I think I have the right packet manager for my 3Com Etherlink XL
> 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) network interface. The problem is that
> when I launch the packet driver I get
> C:\PACKDRIV>3C90XPD
>
> 3Com EtherLink PCI Bus Master Packet Driver v5.2.6
> (C) Copyright 1999 3Com Corp.  All rights reserved.
>
> Error: No EISA nor PCI bus were found.
>
> (Under 1.33 I was getting a strange message and dosemu crashed, but with
> 1.34 things seem to have been improved).

See  section 15. Networking using DOSEMU in doc/README.txt in the 1.3.4 source.

In general you can't access your ethernet hardware directly, well you
could in DOSEMU with a bit of luck (not with DosBox), but you'd have
to be root, set up ports, IRQs and disable the Linux kernel's usage of
the network card... not to be recommended.

The way to go is to set up a virtual network using TUN/TAP, where the
DOSEMU virtual machine gets its own IP address. It's not exactly
straightforward but certainly doable if you follow the instructions in
README.txt.

Bart