As a learning project I want to get a web browser working in a DOS

guest. I am thinking that DR DOS or DOS 7.1 would be good DOS

installations. And I have downloaded the Arachne web browser. But

Arachne requires a "packet driver" to work with a LAN. I haven't been

able to find a "packet driver" for the VPC NIC.



I would appreciate some advice on this project.



Thanks, jimbo

Here is the rest of the story. By luck, not skill, I found a packet

driver for the DEC 21140 network adapter on a web site,

"www.crynwr.com/drivers". A file named, "dc21x4_11_4.zip" contained the

dc.com packet driver. I installed it on the VPC DOS 7.1 system as

"dc.com 0x60". It installed just as if there was a real DEC 21140

present. And Arachne connects to the Internet just fine. I can now

browse the web from an emulated DOS 7.1 system in VPC.



Awesome!



jimbo

This is why we search before we post!

Needless to say, you solved your own problem.

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> Here is the rest of the story. By luck, not skill, I found a packet

> driver for the DEC 21140 network adapter on a web site,

> "www.crynwr.com/drivers". A file named, "dc21x4_11_4.zip" contained the

> dc.com packet driver. I installed it on the VPC DOS 7.1 system as

> "dc.com 0x60". It installed just as if there was a real DEC 21140

> present. And Arachne connects to the Internet just fine. I can now

> browse the web from an emulated DOS 7.1 system in VPC.

>

> Awesome!

>

> jimbo

>