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Loading DOS Network drivers in VM Session posted: Jan 8, 2005 3:45 PM

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BrianRTS
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Jan 8, 2005
Good evening... I have an old legacy system that I am trying to emulate in a VM session using Workstation 4.5.2. The phyiscal hardware is a Pentium II 233 with 256 MB of ram running on a Single Board Computer. The actual server has 3 10/100 Intel nics installed but for this test all I need is one virtual nic within the session. I added one adapter in my VM and set it to be bridged and now I am trying to find a packet driver and network driver that will work in dos 6.22.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Brian Flanagan

Re: Loading DOS Network drivers in VM Session

1. Jan 8, 2005 3:58 PM in response to: BrianRTS
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KevinG
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Jan 8, 2004
Check pcntnd.cab from Barts network boot disk
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

The virtual network adapter is an AMD PCNet Family Ethernet Adapter.

I belive that the pcntnd.cab file will contain the files you are looking for.
AMD PCNet Family Ethernet Adapter NDIS v2.0.1 MAC Driver v3.12

Re: Loading DOS Network drivers in VM Session

2. Jan 8, 2005 3:59 PM in response to: KevinG
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BrianRTS
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Hmmm Interesting thanks. I'll look into it... Can I copy these files to the harddrive and incorporate those files into the normal boot process?

Re: Loading DOS Network drivers in VM Session

3. Jan 9, 2005 7:35 AM in response to: BrianRTS
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KevinG
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Jan 8, 2004
If they load from floppy..they will load from your virtual hard disk. You just need to setup the autoexec.bat and config.sys

Here is another source for the AMD PCNet driver.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/dos_mslanman.exe

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