[Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Friedemann Baitinger]

I was trying to get some "vintage" OSes running on qemu-0.6.1. Here are 
some findings which might be interesting either for the 
documentation/FAQ or for further development:

Neither on WfW3.11 nor on Windows NT4 I was able to get networking going 
with the NE2000 drivers that are part of those OSes. By reading the qemu 
sources I found out that "Realtek 8029" was mentioned there so I 
"googled" for those drivers and found some for WfW 3.11 as well as NT4 
(actually NT4 has them on the distro).

Using these drivers worked on boths OSes.

I also have an OS/2 Warp 4 installed. Networking didn't work with NE2000 
either. I have _not_ yet tried the realtek there, not even sure wheter a 
realtek driver exists for OS/2 but in case somebody is really 
struggling, you might give it a try. If I find the time to test it I'll 
certainly report the results here.

-- 
Friedemann Baitinger

Re: [Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Doug Stanley]

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Where did you get these drivers?
I tried for days to get the realtek drivers to work
with win95 with no luck. I ended up forcing isa and
using the ne2000...
But if you've found some drivers that worked...

I used realtek drivers directly from realtek.com.tw
and also from a thirdparty I believe...neither worked...

Thanks,
Doug

Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> I was trying to get some "vintage" OSes running on qemu-0.6.1. Here are 
> some findings which might be interesting either for the 
> documentation/FAQ or for further development:
> 
> Neither on WfW3.11 nor on Windows NT4 I was able to get networking going 
> with the NE2000 drivers that are part of those OSes. By reading the qemu 
> sources I found out that "Realtek 8029" was mentioned there so I 
> "googled" for those drivers and found some for WfW 3.11 as well as NT4 
> (actually NT4 has them on the distro).
> 
> Using these drivers worked on boths OSes.
> 
> I also have an OS/2 Warp 4 installed. Networking didn't work with NE2000 
> either. I have _not_ yet tried the realtek there, not even sure wheter a 
> realtek driver exists for OS/2 but in case somebody is really 
> struggling, you might give it a try. If I find the time to test it I'll 
> certainly report the results here.
> 

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Re: [Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Friedemann Baitinger]

Doug Stanley wrote:
> Where did you get these drivers?
> I tried for days to get the realtek drivers to work
> with win95 with no luck. I ended up forcing isa and
> using the ne2000...
> But if you've found some drivers that worked...
> 
> I used realtek drivers directly from realtek.com.tw
> and also from a thirdparty I believe...neither worked...

Doug,
there are various places. Search for the following pattern in google:

wfw311-8029

I have found these links:

http://www.tech24.com/help/tools/download_driver.asp?id=4939

or try this:

http://optimal.odessa.ua/bbs/downloads/Realtek/rtl8029as/

there are many different versions of drivers out there even OS/2 (which 
I will try as time permits).

Before I had successfully experimented with Realtek I was also trying to 
get NE2000 in ISA mode running but it did not work at all.

-- 
Friedemann Baitinger

Re: [Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Johannes Martin]

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> I also have an OS/2 Warp 4 installed. Networking didn't work with NE2000 
> either. I have _not_ yet tried the realtek there, not even sure wheter a 
> realtek driver exists for OS/2 but in case somebody is really 
> struggling, you might give it a try. If I find the time to test it I'll 
> certainly report the results here.
I had mixed success with OS/2 Warp. It worked sometimes (with -isa) only.

I finally decided to hook up a pppd on the host OS through the virtual 
serial port in OS/2 and got networking to work that way. I posted some 
patches to get qemu communicate with pppd and similar programs a few 
months ago.

 	Johannes

Re: [Qemu-devel] NE2000 vs Realtek-8029 on WfW 3.11 and NT4

[Antony T Curtis]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 21:23, Johannes Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> > I also have an OS/2 Warp 4 installed. Networking didn't work with NE2000 
> > either. I have _not_ yet tried the realtek there, not even sure wheter a 
> > realtek driver exists for OS/2 but in case somebody is really 
> > struggling, you might give it a try. If I find the time to test it I'll 
> > certainly report the results here.
> I had mixed success with OS/2 Warp. It worked sometimes (with -isa) only.
> 
> I finally decided to hook up a pppd on the host OS through the virtual 
> serial port in OS/2 and got networking to work that way. I posted some 
> patches to get qemu communicate with pppd and similar programs a few 
> months ago.

That is the reason why I wrote the AMD PCNet-II compatible network
adaptor. It works great with the driver for OS/2, and worked IMO better
with other operating systems I tried running in qemu.

-- 
Antony T Curtis, BSc.                   UNIX, Linux, *BSD, Networking
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