USB Network Adapter, Dos Drivers, and Ghost

[Souka]

Hello,

I am looking for a USB Network adapter that I can use for ghosting of system images.....

curerntly I have some boot floppies with various PCI/internal NIC DOS Drivers that I boot up DOS on, logon to the network, and ghost an image. But these days, the NIC's are getting out of hand so I want to try using an external (portable) NIC to simlify the process.

This is what I hope to do:

1: take new system (desktop/laptop) out of box
2: attach USB network device and connect to hub/switch
3: insert floppy with USB DOS drivers
4: boot and run my scripts to logon and begin image process.

Step #3 is the one I'm looking for help on......are there "generic" USB 1.1/2.0 drivers out there that will work on all systems?

ANY help appreciated!

Thanks!

Souka

 

[Souka]

*bump*

 

[Souka]

*bummer* 🙁

 

[Santa]

One thing to consider in your attempts to find this solution is that the DOS operating system never officially supported USB. To do so a company would of had to go out of their way to create some sort of OS wrapper program for a legacy OS that no one would be using.

Wish I had a more helpful solution but I think at least you should try to find an alternative. Perhaps just getting a 10/100 NIC you can plop down can be your solution.

 

[Relayer]

Getting a DOS USB driver is probably possible. You would just need a DOS driver for the NIC. Then you could create a custom boot disk.

I did a Google search for USB DOS drivers here and came up with lots of info. I hope this helps.

One thing to keep in mind is USB NIC's are 12mbs not 100mbs, so cloning is going to be somewhat slower. It may be worth it to just slap a PCI NIC in a machine to get it cloned.

 

[Souka]

ok...thanks will take a look.

All I need is a way to initialize the USB NIC in DOS.

after that, I can do the TCP/IP stuff easily.