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Re: FreeDOS
« on: October 10, 2014, 10:21:35 AM »
Quote from: Dr. Chef;774763
Also, I've been having issues for the longest time to install network drivers (on any computer), is there a way to easily get networking configured, so I can use Arachne (web browser)?

Getting networking to work is not hard, but you have to have a network card in your machine which has a DOS packet driver available. Good candidates for DOS networking are 3Com NICs and older Realtek NICs. If you don't have one you can just buy a dedicated network card for DOS and plug it into your router, provided you have a machine old enough to support PCI (or ISA) cards.

Once you have a packet driver, you only have to load it at boot and you are set. Each Internet capable DOS program has to provide its own TCP/IP stack (for example WATTCP was common). This means that to run Arachne or other internet software you have to configure a network connection for each program, usually in a config text file in the program directory. But it also means that you don't have to bother with anything else than downloading the program in question to get it to work, provided you have the packet driver for your network card.