welcome back to the adventure this is Adam and today we're going to be setting
up our network interface card in ms-dos here I have a real tech single-chip
10100 fast ethernet controller this was released circa 2005 and thankfully
Realtek still offers dos drivers for this card on their website the model
number will be in the description I will install the card in the PC and be right
back first let's take a look at our
convictions file I have moved around a few lines in the config sis file we no
longer have a boot option for the monochrome text mode because it was
preventing optimal memory management due to the order it was loading EMM 386 I
have created a new section here where the networking configuration settings
will go alright the files we will need to add for
networking support in ms-dos are located on the NT server for our installation
disk under the clients folder MS client disks I've copied these files over to
our flash drive we will also need the packet driver for our Ethernet card
which I obtained from the manufacturers website
so the client is going to make some changes to our config psa's and
autoexec.bat files so what I like to do is rename the current file to dot back
that way we'll see what lines the client is adding and we can incorporate those
changes into our file the way we want them so now we can install the client
okay so press ENTER to continue and we will change the path to apps net all
right so now we will choose the network adapter not shown on the list below and
then we will need to point this to our NIC drivers folder and there it is we're
going to go ahead and press ENTER to optimize for performance and our user
name is going to be Adam I want to change the name of our computer to Asus
PC those are correct now I want to change the network configuration so you
have to press the tab key to move to the box above and the down arrow to
highlight the IPX protocol because they do not want that press tab again and I
can select remove so now that there's no protocol there I have to choose one from
the list in this case I want Microsoft tcp/ip there we go
network configuration is correct listed changes are correct and that's just
pointing back to the installation source files so now we are prompted to restart
the PC for the changes to take effect instead I'm going to exit without
restarting so we can look at what those changes were that were made to the
config TSA's and autoexec.bat file
so it looks like there was really only one line that it was trying to add and
that is a device for the network handler so we are going to copy that and we're
going to open the back version of the context is and under net we are going to
paste that line then save and then we are going to open the autoexec.bat file
ok there's all kinds of stuff that was added in here so it does need the
pathing also set to the apps folder so I'm going to take this and we are going
to add that to our autoexec.bat file here under net and there is one line
that needs to go ahead of all these other ones
so RTS pkt dot-com is the name of the packet file for this network card 0 X 60
is the expected memory address where that's going to load a very safe address
to use I haven't had any problems with any of the cards that I've experimented
with so that's good address to use although there are many others many
other places in memory where that could be loaded and then we are going to add
all those other lines here under net and for the path yes ok so that is already
there oops net and then we can save
and then we can restart the computer and boot with networking
okay so this is saying everything completed successfully that's very good
news it did up here pick up the ethernet address that's the MAC address the
physical address of the ethernet card so that is success packet driver appears to
be working presumably have some kind of
connectivity so let's go ahead and ping the default gateway of our router and
see what happens all right we did receive a response or an echo
from the default gateway and that round-trip took 50 milliseconds so we do
have connectivity that wraps up the setup for the network interface card in
ms-dos we're going to stop here and in some future episodes we're going to do a
little bit more with that connectivity thanks for stopping by see you next
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