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                              %h*** NETWORKING ***

For enabling network connectivity you first need to know what kind of network

adapter you have, and obtain a suitable packet driver for it. The "crynwr"

package contains lots of packet drivers for a variety of network adapters.

There is also a packet driver for Intel Pro cards in the e1000pkt package, and

a driver for AMD PC-NET cards in the pcntpk package.

You need to get the packet driver for your card onto the machine, and load it.

Then, you should be able to access the internet and get anything else you need

using wget, htget, gopherus and other network-enabled applications.

Note that packet drivers are mostly available for old-ish interfaces. If you

have some modern ethernet card, then there might not be a packet driver

available for it.

%hFILE SHARING

Perhaps these links could provide some pointers:

<http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS_-_MS_Client>

<https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/?page_id=374>

There is also EtherDFS, which is a very lightweight and easy solution for

file-sharing between DOS and Linux (but it does require a Linux PC and some

basic understanding of how Linux works):

<http://etherdfs.sourceforge.net/>

%hVIRTUALBOX - PACKET DRIVER

VirtualBox is able to emulate an AMD PC-NET NIC (you need to make sure of that

in the configuration of your VM, VirtualBox calls it "PCnet-FAST III" and it

should be set to "NAT"). Then, in SvarDOS you have to install the pcntpk.svp

package - you don't even need to download it, it's already present on the

installation image.

1a) If you installed from floppy images in virtual drive A:, it should be as

    simple as that:

pkg install a:\pcntpk.svp

Proceed with step 2.

1b) If you installed from the ISO image, boot from virtual CD-ROM again and

    press ESC to leave the SvarDOS installer. Then type:

set dosdir=C:\SVARDOS

pkg install pcntpk.svp

Reboot your SvarDOS VM from hard disk.

2) Finally, load the packet driver as such:

c:\drivers\pcntpk\pcntpk int=0x60

...and that's it. From now on, you should be able to search through the

available online packages and install extra software, for example:

pkgnet pull gopherus

pkg install gopherus.svp

(gopherus is a gopher browser)

To search through the list of available packages in the online repository, use

that:

pkgnet search your_search_term