Setting up dos networking UNDER Win98se

[activethistle]

Hi
Perhaps someone out there can help...

I currently have a machine with clean installed Win98SE. No pure DOS. I really, really, really, dont want to wipe the machine and start again.

I play a lot of network duke nukem with my son, but recently I have found that the game keeps crashing and runs really slowly. I have got it into my mind that dos networking is the answer to my problems, as there will be none of the windows overheads running.

I have looked about a bit and it seems that I need to install the networking part of ms-dos 6.22. Is that necessary? or is that already in the pseudo-dos that runs under windows?

How do I configure dos network drivers, TCP/IP, NetBIOS, IPX etc, and which of these are actually necessary?

I know this isnt really a business application, but some help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance....

Active

[blue]Viva [/blue][red]Es[/red][yellow]pa[/yellow][red]na[/red]!!!

 

[johnodq]

I ran Duke Nukem on 3 machines that ran 98 for years, the thing I found that made most games more relaible was to unbind the IPX driver, games such as Commando's wouldn't work when the bindings were on but worked fine once unbound.

I never needed to use just DOS, and this is a solution that would require DOS Mode drivers for you NIC's and then a DOS netwroking solution.

Older DOS games usually require IPX/SPX (This was what Novell's networking systems used, prior to the emergence of TCP/IP as the defacto).

98's implimentaion of IPX/SPX isn't great, and thats probably why unbinding improved it.

I am only going by what I found to work, this worked consistently on many machines and networks.






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[activethistle]

Thanks johnodq, but I dont have IPX/SPX installed - so I cant unbind them.

Any other suggestions?


Active

Never, ever walk up to a computer and say (don't even think), "This will only take a minute!

 

[johnodq]

try installing them, just go into the network properties and add protocol, microsoft, ipx, then unbind them.



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[edfair]

You've got pure DOS. Available at every boot with the [F8] key and the proper config file and autoexec file. Or using the boot menu option in msdos.sys.

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[activethistle]

No matter - cant seem to find dos drivers for my NIC anyway.

Its a Corega PCI-TX btw.

Thanks for your help.

Active.

Never, ever walk up to a computer and say (don't even think), "This will only take a minute!

 

[edfair]

I solve the problem by using Lantastic in my systems. Usually using ndis drivers for those that are newer.
Network cards are cheap. Especially the used one that you need, since new ones are implemented for PNP for windows.

Like your tag line. Especially after yesterday's 6 hour implementation of a 45 minute upgrade.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.