[PLUG] Nic built into D845PEBT2...

[Michael C. Robinson]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 22:35, Aaron Burt wrote:

> Should be a standard Intel Pro/100 PCI NIC driver.

Well I have prodos package from Intel that's supposed to be for dos,
but it doesn't look like a tcpip driver that works with msclient 
as there isn't a something.dos driver file.  Where are the lines
to paste into wcnet.inf so that msclient can use the drivers for
this NIC?  I've added realtek 8029, De220PT, and fa311 to msclient
successfully, but I don't see a .dos driver for say Windows 3.11
for this built-in card.  Is this prodos driver a self
contained TCP/IP driver?  I see no information about TCP/IP
in the readme only seeing information about IPX, which I don't use.
I don't see any other downloads from Intel for this card to use
under dos.

BTW:  There's no point in me doing any network based OS 
      for backup/restoration if I have to install that
      system to the local hard disk to use it.  In this case, 
      I might as well add a local system manually and permanently.
      I can't do this on some machines because of space or
      systems I don't want to destroy on the local harddisk(s).
      Besides, a product like an nvram or rom card that plugs 
      into the ide controller or a pci slot functioning as an 
      expansion rom makes the most sense in this situation assuming
      I can get a big enough one to install the desired system to
      for two reasons:  outlives many hard drives and is both faster
      and more appropriate for severe environments due to better
      data integrity considering dust, shock, and vibration.

      System Imager may be nice but I'm not interested in abandoning
      getting a full blown Linux environment network distributed as
      that gives me an environment I can program which is a more
      appealing thing to work with than say Ghost.  Unless Norton
      has finally debugged and updated the program.  

      Creating dos images is just a matter of using mtools, doesn't
      seem like a big deal to me especially if you go to the LTSP
      website for a good recipe.  I wonder if I don't have access 
      to a local hard drive under LTSP because the standard kernel
      doesn't have ATA support?

            --  Michael C. Robinson