A7NV266-VM - DOS Ethernet Drivers wanted (NDIS2)

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Bernhard

Hi,
We'd like to use PXE with the above board and booting Win98 DOS before
doing a unattended XP Prof. installation. Worked several hundred times
with a bunch of different systems.
But not with A7NV266-VM ...
Referring the PCI information, it's containing the NVidia Ethernet
Chipset (Vendor 10de and device ID 01c3). Neither on the NVidia nor
the Asus web site I can find drivers for DOS (NDIS2 [DOS for
Workgroups] and/or VLM/Client32 [Novell Netware]).
Does anybody where such drivers can be found?
 
Bernhard said:
Hi,
We'd like to use PXE with the above board and booting Win98 DOS before
doing a unattended XP Prof. installation. Worked several hundred times
with a bunch of different systems.
But not with A7NV266-VM ...
Referring the PCI information, it's containing the NVidia Ethernet
Chipset (Vendor 10de and device ID 01c3). Neither on the NVidia nor
the Asus web site I can find drivers for DOS (NDIS2 [DOS for
Workgroups] and/or VLM/Client32 [Novell Netware]).
Does anybody where such drivers can be found?
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AFAIK, there are none. Disable the onboard NIC, and spend $5 on a PCI NIC -
it'll come with all the drivers you need.
 
Nope,
there are some to be downloadable on
http://www.xs4all.be/~basheij/nForce2/NDIS-DOS-NForce-Ethernet.zip
They are working as described in the included PDF file. But Novell VLM
are freezing.
However: The PXE implemenation in the A7NV266 is one of the worst on
the market: It reduces main conventional memory from 640KB to 512KB
making it nearly impossible to make the PXE boot useful.
Using 3rd party NICs (like Intel, Realtek) also doesn't work due to
memory fragmenatation in the upper memory (again: not enough base
memory).
So it looks like the Asus boards is junk for PXE purposes.

Regards
Bernd

Bernhard said:
Hi,
We'd like to use PXE with the above board and booting Win98 DOS before
doing a unattended XP Prof. installation. Worked several hundred times
with a bunch of different systems.
But not with A7NV266-VM ...
Referring the PCI information, it's containing the NVidia Ethernet
Chipset (Vendor 10de and device ID 01c3). Neither on the NVidia nor
the Asus web site I can find drivers for DOS (NDIS2 [DOS for
Workgroups] and/or VLM/Client32 [Novell Netware]).
Does anybody where such drivers can be found?
Click to expand...

AFAIK, there are none. Disable the onboard NIC, and spend $5 on a PCI NIC -
it'll come with all the drivers you need.
Click to expand...
 
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