If all goes well, you should be surfing like it’s 1999 all on your MS-DOS based laptop. After that, you need to either restart or hit the “use new settings button. When I configured Arachne, I chose “Resident packet driver” and “bootp/dhcp”. Arachne will pretty much handle the rest itself. The drivers above handle your layer 1 and layer 2 functions. Once you start up Arachne, you’ll need to set up some network settings. It’s the best one that I tested and the only one I could get to work. Now it’s time to download Arachne which is a fully graphical web browser for MS-DOS. Feel free to add that line to your autoexec.bat if you don’t want to have to worry about it in the future. This means everything is probably working but it’s pretty hard to say at the moment because you don’t have ping or anything installed by default with MS-DOS. This should finally turn the light on your card on. Use “0x prefix for hex)Īfter these things are done and the file is saved, you can try out your settings with: Key1 = abcde (uncomment and put in your key. Enable_Encryption = N (uncomment and change to “Y”) Station_Name = John Does Notebook PC (obvious) Wireless_Network_Name = ANY (put in your ssid) In the packet.ini file, you’ll want to set the following lines most likely: Hopefully you have a WEP router that is off in the corner of your network where it cannot hurt anyone.
This may disappoint some of you here but you only have two options which are open or WEP. First you’ll want to edit the PACKET.INI file. After that is done, you’ll need to deal with the files in the PACKET directory. Reboot your computer and see if that works. That is what worked for me, your mileage may vary. I found another location that was suitable and inserted a line similar to this one into my config.sys:ĭEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\CAD\WVLANCAD.SYS /i=10 /b=1300 /m=b400 Read the readme.txt first and you will find out that you need to run MSD(Microsoft Diagnostics) and find a free location in memory to use as a base address. First you’ll need to deal with what is in the CAD directory. After you’ve stuck your card into the laptop and unzipped the file, you are pretty much interested in two directories from the zip file. Now for the how… The first part can be a bit interesting. That little zip file on there contains everything you need. Once you’ve obtained your card, you will need the driver which is available on this server. The Orinoco card uses an Agere chipset so in theory this may work for other similar cards. It’s a 16-bit pcmcia card so it works in my Libretto 50ct. Part of the reason I went with this card is that it is NOT cardbus. There are a couple but for me, the easiest to find was an Orinoco Silver/Gold card. What you need is a wireless card that has MS-DOS drivers available for it. Now that the “why” is out of the way, now we need to cover the “what”. I figured it would be easier to punch up a URL and download the file directly.
Second, I was sick of taking the compact flash card out of my Libretto 50ct and sticking it in my Mac to put new files on the system. First off, of course, I wanted to see if it could be done and how usable it would be. However, I should point out that the Yamaha YMF718 still sounds much better in my opinion, and doesn't need anything special, it just works out of the box.While it may seem pointless at first I actually have a halfway legitimate reason for going through the effort. In my case, after dropping the 3DBench 1.0c score to less than 200 FPS, both the SB16 and the ESS AudioDrive started sounding very good. If you have a normal K6-2, you will need to play with the jumpers/DIP switches: set the multiplier as low as possible, but I don't think you can set it to 2x, because the K6-2 CPUs will interpret it as 6x. If your particular system is still too fast, you might consider dropping the FSB speed to 66 MHz. If you have a K6-2/3+ CPU, run "setmul 2 l2d" (this will set the multiplier to 2x for a 200 MHz effective speed and also disable the CPU internal L2 cache). Disable the BIOS "External cache" optionī1. The idea is to get less than 200 FPS in 3DBench 1.0c :Ī.