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Arachne DOS browser and piracy :-( (Miscellaneous)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 29.08.2007, 21:30

> It still doesn't work for me. Tried again:
>
> Abnormal program termination in the installer. 2nd attempt,
> same result (after backuping old installation) :-(

Please report that to the FreeDOS mailing list or create a Bugzilla entry!

> Searched driver ... no reasonable DOS network driver download exists :-(

For some NICs it might be true, but I doubt in general. Please tell us the complete NIC name!

> finally ripped it from a piracy boot-disk :-( It contains 6 files (is it

Shame on you! :-P

> really necessary ???), no documentation at all, and needs activation from
> both CONFIG-file and AUTOSTART-file ... done :-| Seems to match the card
> model at least ... but doesn't work ... crash in FreeDOS :-( EDR-DOS
> again, wow, driver initialization seems to pass ... according to one of
> the driver files, it does sit on INT 60 ... start Arachne ... no driver
> found at INT 60 :-(

You could still swap your NIC.

> I wonder how many people (except K. Udo) actually had Arachne working or
> "use" it seriously, and with what connection type or cards. Especially,
> whether someone has it working with a PCI Ethernet card.

I successfully use(d) Arachne over PCI NIC, ISA NIC, PC Card NIC, parallel port adapter...

> If someone knows where to search for DOS drivers for PCI Ethernet cards
> (Linksys) - most what I found so far were "bootdisks" (very questionable
> stuff, mostly obviously pirated) - please post info :hungry:

Again: Please tell us the complete NIC name! We are not clairvoyants.

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