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Hello, Is somewhere to looking for I-net with RealTek packet drivers for FreeDOS?

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)

Thanks

Hi:


You can have a look to this page
http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm

Good luck!


> Hello, Is somewhere to looking for I-net with RealTek packet drivers for
> FreeDOS?
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
>
> Thanks

> Hello, Is somewhere to looking for I-net with RealTek packet drivers for
> FreeDOS?
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
>
> Thanks

I could not find a packet driver for it but found this NDIS2 driver.

https://drivers.eu/Network/RealTek/RTL8111/DOS

Scrolling to near the bottom of the page....

Network
Device:RealTek RTL8111
Name:Driver
Version:1.38
Released:01 Sep 2011
System:DOS
Size:37.67Kb
Description:Driver for RealTek RTL8111
NDIS2 driver for DOS (Support MSclient,Lantastic,Lanman,Norton Ghost )

This i7 machine I'm on right now has on-board broardcom gigabit ethernet.
its ODI driver works like a charm while booted directly to OpenDos7.01

--- C:\PRODOS\PRO1000\DOS\START.BAT

lh \prodos\pro1000\dos\lsl.com
lh \prodos\pro1000\dos\e1000odi.com
lh \b57\odipkt 0 96
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http://glennmcc.org/

https://www.corus.pro/pilotes/VAD/VAD747/rtllan/8111/PacketDriver_v200B28/

this driver not working :(

diagnostic tool RSET8169.EXE works with chip!

but software from RealTek
https://www.realtek.com/Download/Index?cate_id=194&menu_id=297

crashes in JEMMEX :(

https://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8101packetdr/

maybe this recompile and add rtl8168 could be worked?

linux-kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
* r8169.c: RealTek 8169/8168/8101 ethernet driver.

it seems to 8101 and 8168 are similar, it could be use sources
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8101packetdr/

it looks like project for OSX? and ported for DOS

get the 8101 ODI driver, and follow GLENMCC's advice.

There are various so called "shims" that can convert one network driver API to another so you could reach the packet driver trying this:
http://www.shikadi.net/network/

Also beware that RTL8111 exists in many variants (B, C, D, E...) that are not fully compatible. I had a problem that Win9x driver that worker with older 8111 revision didn't work with newer chip. But under DOS there's bigger chance it would work.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Hello, ethernet is working :) This could be usefull for someone
who use NDIS package to packet driver Realtek conversion

protocol.ini

;--- PROTOCOL.INI ---

[PROTMAN]
DriverName=PROTMAN$

[RTGND]
DriverName=RTGND$
Medium=_auto
ioaddress = 0x300
Interrupt=10
IOBase=0xD000


[PKTDRV]
DriverName=PKTDRV$
BINDINGS=RTGND
IntVec=0x60

net.bat

C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\NET
C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\DIS_PKT.DOS
C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\RTGND.DOS
SET BIND=RTGND.COM
C:\NET\NETBIND.COM

[EDR-DOS] C:\net>C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\NET
DEVLOAD v3.25 - load DOS device drivers - license GNU General Public License 2
(c) 1992-2011 David Woodhouse, Eric Auer (FreeDOS.org)

Loading: C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS
1 char device installed.
Driver loaded.
[EDR-DOS] C:\net>C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\DIS_PKT.DOS
DEVLOAD v3.25 - load DOS device drivers - license GNU General Public License 2
(c) 1992-2011 David Woodhouse, Eric Auer (FreeDOS.org)

Loading: C:\NET\DIS_PKT.DOS
MAC/DIS to Packet Driver converter loaded. Version 1.11
Copyright 1991 FTP Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
v1.07 by Joe R. Doupnik, jrd@cc.usu.edu, Utah State Univ, 18 May 1991
v1.09 by Joe R. Doupnik, jrd@cc.usu.edu, Utah State Univ, 3 Nov 1991
v1.08, v1.10, v1.11 by Dan Lanciani, ddl@danlan.com
1 char device installed.
Driver loaded.
[EDR-DOS] C:\net>C:\NET\DEVLOAD.COM C:\NET\RTGND.DOS
DEVLOAD v3.25 - load DOS device drivers - license GNU General Public License 2
(c) 1992-2011 David Woodhouse, Eric Auer (FreeDOS.org)

Loading: C:\NET\RTGND.DOS
Link Speed: 100 Mbps
Duplex Mode: full-duplex
System: x86 processor, PCI bus, two 8259s
Parameters: IOBase = 0xD000
Interrupt Level = 10
Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
CopyRight : Copyright @ 2019, Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Ethernet Adapter driver (V1.54) [2019/05/15] is installed
This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.
1 char device installed.
Driver loaded.
[EDR-DOS] C:\net>SET BIND=RTGND.COM
[EDR-DOS] C:\net>C:\NET\NETBIND.COM
Ethernet board's Ethernet Address:D8CB8A2B4361
MS-DOS LAN Manager v2.1 Netbind

> Hello, ethernet is working :)

Congratulation.

And thanks for sharing your result with the rest of the world;)

Which should be natural, but often enough isn't.

> Hello, ethernet is working :) This could be usefull for someone
> who use NDIS package to packet driver Realtek conversion
>

That's great.

Where did you find and download all those required drivers ?

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http://glennmcc.org/

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> Where did you find and download all those required drivers ?

DOS MS Client for networks (two self-extracting files ?DSK3-1.EXE, ?DSK3-2.EXE) NDIS driver
https://www.shikadi.net/network/ shim convertor dis_pkt11(9).zip
https://www.realtek.com/Download/ realtek NDIS for rtl8168 chip

inside net/

root@devuan:~# ls -la /mnt/FREEDOS/net
celkem 240
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 16384  9. ?en 13.12 .
drwxr-xr-x 198 root root 16384  1. led  1970 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  3224  5. srp  2011 DEVLOAD.COM
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  4733  4. led  1998 dis_pkt.dos
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 11205 31. srp  1994 IPCONFIG.EXE
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   160  8. ?en 21.42 NET.BAT
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  8513 14. ?íj  1996 NETBIND.COM
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 21940 31. srp  1994 PROTMAN.DOS
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 13782 31. srp  1994 PROTMAN.EXE
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   213  9. ?en 09.45 protocol.ini
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 65483 15. kv?  2019 RTGND.DOS
root@devuan:~#

Edited by rr: added "code" tags to improve readability

Yes, I used this setup for many years on my RTL8111E (just nobody asked till now) running Links, Arachne, MPXplay intet radios, etc. Good to know that Realtek NDIS2 driver still works for newer RTL8111GN...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.