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I'd like some IPX drivers.

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First post, by Danfun64

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I've posted about my old laptop before, and I have another question to ask.

I'd like some DOS IPX drivers for it, but I'm not sure they exist. The laptop uses an Intel PRO/100 CardBus II for ethernet. If for whatever reason I wanted to do an ipx match in boom in dos mode, I'd like the right drivers.

Reply 1 of 7, by Sammy

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google for you card name and Dos ODI Drivers

Reply 2 of 7, by Danfun64

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...im an idiot. Thanks!

Reply 3 of 7, by Danfun64

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I'm having memory issues that are preventing the ipx drivers from loading. Any suggestions?

Config.sys

DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

DEVICE=C:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd0001
INSTALL=C:\ctmouse\ctmouse.exe /3

Autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF
SET PATH C:\PROGRA~1\WIN98RK;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\COMMAND;C:\
REM Terratec Sound System Gold 16/96 Drivers
REM ESSCFG for ES1868 (and ES1878) only!
REM ESSCFG V4.8: Verbose IRQ DMA1 DMA2 Address MPU Joystick
C:\Es1869\ESSCFG.EXE /V:1 /I:7 /D:1 /E:3 /A:220 /B:330 /J:E
REM ESSVOL 0..15: v=master l=line w=wave m=mic c=CD s=synth a=auxB =pcspkr
C:\Es1869\ESSVOL.EXE /v:8 /l:0 /w:8 /m:0 /c:0 /s:8 /a:8 /p:0
C:\Es1869\ESSVOL

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd0001

C:\IntelPro\Mobile\Doscb\cbcombo.exe

LSL
E1000ODI
IPXODI
NETX

C:\NTFS\NTFSCHK.EXE /F /S

Reply 4 of 7, by Danfun64

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Bump.

Nobody has any suggestions as to fix my config.sys and autoexec.bat so all the memory is aligned properly?

Reply 5 of 7, by alexanrs

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Loading stuff high with LH (autoexec.bat) and DEVICEHIGH (config.sys) is a first start.
Also, do a "MEM /F" command and see what memory regions are allocated to UMBs. You can then select to what region something will load with /L:X parameter, eg.

DEVICEHIGH /L:2=C:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd0001

or

LH /L:1 = DOSKEY

Just beware that not every driver or TSR likes being loaded high. Also, if you can afford using "RAM" instead of "NOEMS" (it will reduce the UMBs to allocate the EMS page frame), use the "/E" switch with MSCDEX to reduce its conventional memory footprint somewhat.

Reply 6 of 7, by Danfun64

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I managed to configure config.sys and autoexec.bat correctly so that the ipx drivers work.

Because I don't want to leave others in the dark, here is how I set each.

config.sys

DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE RAM

DEVICEHIGH=C:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd0001
INSTALLHIGH=C:\ctmouse\ctmouse.exe /3

autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF
SET PATH C:\PROGRA~1\WIN98RK;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\COMMAND;C:\
REM Terratec Sound System Gold 16/96 Drivers
REM ESSCFG for ES1868 (and ES1878) only!
REM ESSCFG V4.8: Verbose IRQ DMA1 DMA2 Address MPU Joystick
LH C:\Es1869\ESSCFG.EXE /V:1 /I:7 /D:1 /E:3 /A:220 /B:330 /J:E
REM ESSVOL 0..15: v=master l=line w=wave m=mic c=CD s=synth a=auxB =pcspkr
LH C:\Es1869\ESSVOL.EXE /v:8 /l:0 /w:8 /m:0 /c:0 /s:8 /a:8 /p:0
LH C:\Es1869\ESSVOL

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
LH MSCDEX.EXE /E /D:mscd0001

C:\NTFS\NTFSCHK.EXE /F /S

One last question before I leave this thread to rest. Why does the Boom refresh daemon load faster in windows 98se2me than in dos 7.1 on the same computer? I would have thought that boom would load faster in its native environment.

Reply 7 of 7, by alexanrs

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Disk caching and IDE drives using MWDMA/UDMA are good suspects. SmartDrv might help a great real in DOS, but it can be a bit of a conventional memory pig (30kb).

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