DOS 6.22, WFW 3.11 and USB 1.1 ?????

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Melkor

Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.


Any ideas?


Thank you.


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Melkor said:
Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to
use for school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I
was 12 ( 29 now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home.
Isdtarted out on an 8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22
and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work
in DOS or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a
wireless Microsoft Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks
up via USB. I have extra PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space
saving reasons would be NICE to be able to use the wireless setup
on the old PC.
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yes, search for usb dos mouse on google

http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/

is a good start
 
Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend
to use for school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers
since I was 12 ( 29 now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win
XP home. Isdtarted out on an 8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive
and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS
6.22 and WFW 3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this
old box to work in DOS or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space
as I have a wireless Microsoft Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on
laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s>
but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be able to use
the wireless setup on the old PC.
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USB support was flaky at best under Windows 95 OSR2 (which had no
native support for USB). Best of luck to you getting it to run
correctly under Windows 3.11!

Adam
 
Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.


Any ideas?
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Use the USB-> PS2 adapter that should've came with the
keyboard/mouse, or find one... it's just a straight through
port/pin-adapter..
 
Melkor said:
Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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For a mouse and a keyboard? And a wireless keyboard and mouse at
that? Doubtful. Any DOS support for USB that I've seen is pretty
much device specific, largely supporting storage devices. I think
there's a driver for a standard USB mouse but not for wireless
devices. Just Google using DOS USB DRIVERS and you should find
anything that's available. But unless someone created a DOS driver
specifically for this wireless mouse/keyboard combo I don't think it
will fly.
 
Melkor said:
Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.


Any ideas?


Thank you.
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Even if you can find usb drivers for DOS you might have trouble at
bootup (before dos loads). The motherboard may complain, fatally, that
a keyboard is missing.
 
For a mouse and a keyboard? And a wireless keyboard and mouse at
that? Doubtful. Any DOS support for USB that I've seen is pretty
much device specific, largely supporting storage devices. I think
there's a driver for a standard USB mouse but not for wireless
devices. Just Google using DOS USB DRIVERS and you should find
anything that's available. But unless someone created a DOS driver
specifically for this wireless mouse/keyboard combo I don't think it
will fly.
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ISTR that the MS wireless keyboard requires some MS software installed
from the CD. If you've got the model I'm familiar with, no way is that
stuff going to run in DOS/WFW.
 
Have a look at the MS-DOS 7.10 in the
next thread.



Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.


Any ideas?


Thank you.


---
 
Have a look at the MS-DOS 7.10 in the
next thread.



Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.


Any ideas?


Thank you.
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Take a look at OpenSource DOS (freedos.org).

They have something to say about USB:

http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/149.html
 
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But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
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I have been using a P166 machine with just 64 mb memory with Win98FE
and 98lite with satisfactory USB (1.1) support. Hard disk is 1 gb and
the install base of W98+98lite is just 130 mb

Why then bother with DOS-USB which is, IMHO, a workaround and not
original.

HTH
 
I have been using a P166 machine with just 64 mb memory with Win98FE
and 98lite with satisfactory USB (1.1) support. Hard disk is 1 gb and
the install base of W98+98lite is just 130 mb

Why then bother with DOS-USB which is, IMHO, a workaround and not
original.
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Why bother with W98lite? It's a workaround and not original.

: )
 
Why bother with W98lite? It's a workaround and not original.

: )
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Why not bother with Win98lite?

It's disturbing how much crap MS installs on a HDD just to run a
basic OS config, even with Win98, let alone XP.

I keep toying with the idea of running Win98 lite off of a 256MB
from a ramdrive loaded by flash thumbdrive, but so many projects,
so little time...
 
kony said:
Why not bother with Win98lite?

It's disturbing how much crap MS installs on a HDD just to run a
basic OS config,
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<<<<<<<<<<<<snip>>>>>>>>>>>

The third poster simply applied the second poster's pseudo logic to
the second poster's opinion. While I feel that the third poster was
completely correct, neither post was of any particular value as they
failed to address the OP's question.....so I guess you know where that
puts you and me in the relevance hierarchy of this thread? Some threads
die harder than others.

Art Leonard
 
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