Are you using HAL9000's build of DOSBox? If not you should because the official ver of DOSBox don't emulate a NIC.

http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/

Yes, I'm using the mega build MB5. Same results as the previous 72 patched ne2000 version...

Wish they would just change the ne2000 packet driver to AMD's packet driver version... It's proven to work...

A line like this should show up in the Status Window:

1Using Network interface:
2rpcap://\Device\NPF_{AC482C0B-4F3B-4603-82B0-7634E8745685}
3(Network adapter 'VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
4on local host)

If not, maybe you didn't install (Win)pcap.

Brillant! That worked!!! Win PCAP is what I was missing! THANK YOU SO MUCH Hal9000!!! This dosbox program is beyond epic proportions!

BTW version 73 runs my application much MUCH faster than version 72 did for my application, excellent job!

This may be a silly question, but if official DOSBOX doesn't emulate a network card then how does the IPX emulation work? How do networked games see a network card to talk to when no such card is emulated? Is the IPX protocol emulated at some higher level or something?

yes.

Excuse my noobishness please, but so does hal9000's dosbox allow true internet on dosbox? And if it does, can win98 internet work on it?

Maybe read the HTML documentation (start menu entry) that comes with MB5.

I can see it does support internet, but it only mentions win95. So I assume there's no support for win98, right?

I didn't try Win98 so can't tell.

win98 works fine...since you're also asking about glide in the other thread...my build has both ne2000 and glide 😉

temptingthelure wrote:

I can see it does support internet, but it only mentions win95. So I assume there's no support for win98, right?

There's no support at all for Windows 9x in DOSBox. Windows 95 will WORK to a degree but it's not SUPPORTED.

As for Windows 98 you may have some luck but in my experience it'll crash very often if you can even get it to install. (Haven't tried 0.73 and above for DOSBox recently)

Use Windows 9x in other VM's, not in DOSBox.

I too am having problems getting the NE2000 configured for DosBox getting the same FF:FF:FF:FF... as the original post. I have installed WinPCap 4.1 and verified it. Maybe the problem is my Win7 x64 host. Any suggestions?

What does the DOSBox Status Window say...

CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file c:\users\e2z\documents\win31\dosbox_mb5\configs\wfw311.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32
Using Network interface:
rpcap://\Device\NPF_{6A750FCC-AC79-4A48-9357-97B9DBB6DD28}
(Network adapter 'NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter Driver' on local host)

Looks like you are passing the wrong base address to your driver. 300h is the default.

Perhaps I have the wrong packet drivers. Where should I get them from?

gulikoza wrote:

win98 works fine...since you're also asking about glide in the other thread...my build has both ne2000 and glide 😉

Awesome man, both ne2000 and glide support on win98, for old windows games, your dosbox build is light years ahead of commercial emulators. 😁 *thumbs up*

cedisme: maybe send me your version so i can see if it works here. Though I'm currently not in the mood to fix anything in the NE2000 patch 😉