{"id":1119,"date":"2008-07-17T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/using-packet-level-drivers-for-ms-dos-network-connectivity.htm"},"modified":"2008-07-17T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:00:57","slug":"using-packet-level-drivers-for-ms-dos-network-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/using-packet-level-drivers-for-ms-dos-network-connectivity.htm","title":{"rendered":"Using packet level drivers for MS-DOS network connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons to use Windows PE for operating system deployment is that it&#8217;s built on a modern version of Windows so, at least in theory, driver support is less of an issue than it would be using MS-DOS boot disks.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, there are still times when a good old MS-DOS boot disk comes in handy and networking is a particular pain point &#8211; NDIS drivers are a pain to configure so packet-level drivers are often useful for operating system deployment tasks (but not optimised for anything more substantial).  Available for many of the more common Ethernet cards, they are generally 16-bit utilities for MS-DOS and so will not work in 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>As this is not exactly cutting edge technology, many of the useful sites are starting to drop off the &#8216;net (but a surprising number remain) &#8211; here&#8217;s a few links I found that might come in handy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/users.pandora.be\/mydotcom\/library\/network\/dostcpip.htm\">A complete description of MS-DOS TCP\/IP connectivity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crynwr.com\/\">Crynwr<\/a> has a load of good stuff, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crynwr.com\/drivers\">a selection of packet level drivers<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crynwr.com\/e100b11b.zip\">Intel EtherExpress PRO 100 packet driver<\/a> is particularly useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgpotthast.de\/sioux\/packet.htm\">Some more links to MS-DOS packet drivers<\/a> together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgpotthast.de\/sioux\/pktdrv\/nicscan.zip\">nicscan.exe<\/a> (a useful scanner for NIC cards, although I&#8217;m not sure if the database is still maintained and <a href=\"http:\/\/members.datafast.net.au\/dft0802\/downloads.htm\">Craig Hart&#8217;s PCI\/PCI32 may be more useful<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/service1.symantec.com\/SUPPORT\/on-technology.nsf\/docid\/2000062113392125\">Symantec&#8217;s article on manually creating a Ghost network book disk<\/a> contains useful information including a generic disk which simply requires the appropriate packet driver to be added) &#8211; basically, all that is required is:\n<ol>\n<li>Create an MS-DOS boot disk (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootdisk.com\/\">bootdisk.com<\/a> is a good source, or a blank formatted disk can have system files added to it using the <code>sys<\/code> command).<\/li>\n<li>Add an appropriate packet driver for the selected NIC (e.g. E100B.COM for an Intel EtherExpress PRO 100).<\/li>\n<li>Load the driver using by calling it from the autoexec.bat file (e.g. by adding the line <code>e100b.com 0x60<\/code> to the end of the file).<\/li>\n<li>Create a file called wattcp.cfg with the following contents:<\/br><code>IP=<em>IPaddress<\/em><\/code> (or leave blank if using DHCP)<\/br><code>NETMASK=255.255.255.0<\/code> (this is a C-class Subnet, change if needed)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons to use Windows PE for operating system deployment is that it&#8217;s built on a modern version of Windows so, at least in theory, driver support is less of an issue than it would be using MS-DOS boot disks. Even so, there are still times when a good old MS-DOS boot disk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/using-packet-level-drivers-for-ms-dos-network-connectivity.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using packet level drivers for MS-DOS network connectivity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[126,54,32,16],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ms-dos","tag-os-deployment","tag-pc-hardware","tag-useful-websites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using packet level drivers for MS-DOS network connectivity - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/using-packet-level-drivers-for-ms-dos-network-connectivity.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using packet level drivers for MS-DOS network connectivity - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the reasons to use Windows PE for operating system deployment is that it&#8217;s built on a modern version of Windows so, at least in theory, driver support is less of an issue than it would be using MS-DOS boot disks. 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