3c589d packet driver?

[Smitty]

I was going to play around with sshdos and when I went to run it I got a message saying "no packet driver found". I was afraid this might be a problem. I did some googling and haven't had any luck finding it. Does anyone have it or know where I could download it?

 

[mbbrutman]

Did you check out www.crynwr.com? That is the 'home' of the DOS packet driver. I didn't see that chipset listed right away, but the existing 3c509 driver might work, and there are other directories for drivers that I did not look in.

 

[ahm]

There's 10 whole seconds I'll never get back:
http://www.google.com/search?q=3c589
First hit.

 

[Smitty]

yeah, I tried the one listed there and it didn't work

 

[ahm]

yeah, I tried the one listed there and it didn't work

I'd agree with you, except you haven't given us any details, pertinent or otherwise.

 

[Smitty]

Well, with the one on the 3com site I put the 3c589pd.com file in c:\ then edited the autoexec.bat to load it on boot and I ended up getting a windows protection fault error.

 

[mbbrutman]

Why are you trying to use a DOS packet driver in Windows?

That's a no-no .. Windows has it's own APIs for managing networking hardware, and the packet driver is dying because it is trying to touch hardware that Windows considers to be critical/privileged.

 

[carlsson]

I was going to play around with sshdos and when I went to run it I got a message saying "no packet driver found".

Hm, is that a SSH client for DOS? Are you running a DOS window under some Windows version?

 

[Smitty]

Yup, it's a ssh client for dos. I was trying to run it only booted into dos and not windows 95. I've been wanting to get arachne on it too and eventually use it as a dos only machine if I can get the nic setup properly for it.