Need to get a successful PING request from a desktop running DOS 6.22. to my Win7 laptop to prove the network connection on the DOS computer is functional. Don't need to x-fer any files, just need the PING request to be answered. I used ipconfig to display my IPv4 address and tried to ping my laptop from the DOS computer thru a crossover network cable. The ping request timed out. Do I need to set-up a LAN connection or something on the laptop?
I believe the DOS computer is using netbeui but may be TCPIP. Not sure how to tell.Thx in adv.
You need to run tcp\ip on the DOS computer. This isn't standard with DOS, so you need 3rd party software. http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FAQs/dos-... TCP IP
I loaded the computer with all the s/w supposedly needed for a Dell (from an install CD), but we used a different manuf so I needed a different NIC driver. There are references to Netbeui and TCPIP in the protocol.ini file so I'm not sure which one is actually being used. I was able to ping my laptop with another win7 laptop so I believe my laptop is OK for TCPIP.:
Here's the protocol.ini file before I modified it to use a different NIC driver (Replaced all references to RTSND with E100B) :
[MS$NWLINK]
FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2
[network.setup]
version=0x3110
netcard=ms$RTSND,1,MS$RTSND,1
transport=tcpip,TCPIP
lana0=ms$rtsnd,1,tcpip[TCPIP]
NBSessions=6
SubNetMask0=255 0 0 0
IPAddress0=0 0 0 0
DisableDHCP=0
DriverName=TCPIP$
BINDINGS=MS$rtsnd
LANABASE=0
[protman]
DriverName=PROTMAN$
PRIORITY=MS$NETBEUI[MS$RTSND]
IOADDRESS=0x210
DriverName=RTSND$
;IOADDRESS=0x300
MAXTRANSMITS=6
You want to avoid Netbeui. It is a very old protocol and has not been natively supported by Windows since about Windows 2000. I had networking with DOS working about 15 years ago. If I remember correctly I had a lot of trouble.
Wound up sending the computer back to the supplier. They connected it to their network and it worked fine.
Now I'm back in the same spot again on a different computer. Gotta figure out how to make the DOS box ping my WIn7 laptop. Should DisableDHCP=0 be set to "1" instead of "0"??
Help!!
Looks like setting the DisableDHCP=0 variable to "1" on the DOS computer and setting up a static IP address on the Windows machine did the trick.
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