whats the best one to get thats already got built in driver support?
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3com 3c509 series are always my choice. But anything NE2000 compatible will also be ok.
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I also used SMC EtherEZ boards back in the day. They were pretty solid.
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Ne2000 would be my 1st pick. RTL8019 equipped cards with lots of jumpers.
I have some Intel Ether Express 10. The nice thing about these is that they have flash chips that you can write (have not figured out how again, I simply forgot 😀)
3Com also.
And then you have this: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
Network stacks in DOS were a pain. When you loaded the Netware or LANMAN TSRs you pretty much were very low on conventional memory. Packet drivers were a lot nicer but limited.
wrote:Network stacks in DOS were a pain. When you loaded the Netware or LANMAN TSRs you pretty much were very low on conventional memory. Packet drivers were a lot nicer but limited.
I don't agree with this. There are ways to load Netware fully and LANMAN partially high. For the case of Netware it is even laoded to EMS/XMS leaving UMBs free for other drivers. In such a config Netware takes no conventional memory at all.
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It was also possible to load WfW's network stack without loading the Win 3.x GUI (but the networking part of Windows).
I don't recall the details, but perhaps this made more use of XMS instead of base memory.
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