Getting intergraded NIC to work under DOS?

[paperfist]

Hey everyone,

I am trying get a driver loaded under DOS for an intergraded NIC and have so far lost all my hair trying to. I am using an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard (original nForce) and it has an intergraded Realtek RTL-8139 NIC on it. What I am trying to do is run this program DOSDP-XP for which I need to have the correct DOS driver running to use it.

Where can I find a DOS Driver for the Reaktek NIC and how would I get it to work? I?ve tried all the ?DOS? drivers from Realtek?s site and haven?t gotten them to work. Any help work be massively appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Sukhoi]

Check these links.

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/Dosclnt3.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/Doscltcp.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/Dosclflp.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/Doscl3up.htm

 

[paperfist]

Thanks for the help.

I've tried that stuff and so far no luck, still working with it though. I am begining to think the onboard NIC is setup wrong as I've used Realtek's diag. tool and it can't find the NIC. I dunno what else their is to setup other then enabling it under BIOS.

 

[Sukhoi]

Although I remember it was complicated (and I ended up using NetBEUI), I did get a Linksys 10/100 Mbps card running in DOS. So maybe something is wrong with your NIC.

 

[paperfist]

Maybe...I can't get the intergraded NIC to work and Asus tech support didn't help any, but I did get a Linksys NIC to work from the PCI slot. I have the driver loaded under DOS and I am trying to connect to the Win2k machine now, but I can't Anyone know how to get the router (also a Linksys - BEFSR41) to recognize the DOS machine? I can't ping the DOS machine from the Win2k and I can't ping the Win2k machine from the DOS machine. Something else I might be doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated

 

[Sukhoi]

Did you specifically load TCP/IP in DOS? It's normally too large to run off a floppy.

 

[paperfist]

Hmm I would have thought that DOSRDP program I am using to connect Win2k with would have had to use TCP/IP to make the connection work.

Can you recommend any TCP/IP for DOS? I am complete networking noob here I'll see what I can dig up off of Google. Thanks for the help Sukhoi.

 

[Sukhoi]

I've never personally used TCP/IP under DOS, so I can't help you very specifically. I'm pretty sure one of the four links I posted deals with it. From what I remember TCP/IP is too large to run off a bootable floppies (IPX and NetBEUI can be run off a floppy). So if you want to do TCP/IP in DOS you will most likely need to run it off the hard drive. That should actually not be too hard to do since a lot of those directions deal with getting all the junk to fit on the floppy.