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Getting networking to work with Realtek 8139

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First post, by t0maz

Posted on 2006-07-08, 12:20

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Hello,

I'd like to get IPX networking to work so I can try to login to a Netware server. Unfortunately I haven't found a page in the documentation which describes how to do this so I'm just kinda doing something here. First I enabled ipx in the config file. Next, I'm trying to load the (what I think) required stuff:

1LH LSL.COM
2LH RTSODI.COM
3LH IPXODI.COM
4LH VLM.EXE

That's what I think I need to do and then it would work. But while trying to load the Realtek driver (RTSODI.COM) I get the following errors on the screen:

1Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet MLID   v3.66 (031231)
2(c) Copyright 2002, by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.
3
4Max Frame 1514 bytes, Bus ID 4
5Board 1, Frame ETHERNET_802.3, LSB Mode
6
7RTSODI-DOS-30: This is not on a PCI system.
8
9RTSODI-DOS-6: The adapter did not initialize.  RTSODI did not load.

Any suggestions on how to get IPX networking to work?

Reply 1 of 2, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2006-07-08, 13:09

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Dosbox has no direct host hardware access required by drivers.
You can try vlm.exe only but even if it loads it won't bring you anywhere. Dosbox uses a IPX over UDP transport and nobody ever tried/reported it to be compatible with netwares tunneling mechanisms.
Even if you use my direct IPX patch it can't open the netbios port because the host has already done so.
There exists a patch which emulates a NE2000 card (requires winpcap) but it is old and I haven't seen a build with it.

Other options could be Qemu, Bochs and similar creatures.

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 2, by t0maz

Posted on 2006-07-08, 13:14

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Thanks for your answer. It's unfortunate that it will not work. I needed DosBox especially for it's ability to slow down and speed up operations so unless Bochs/Qemu also support similar features (I will look into it) I don't believe they'll be very useful.

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