Ask for help with MS DOS internet access - China DOS Union Forum

Several years have passed, and I'll just answer it myself.

Surfing the Internet is very troublesome. I barely tried to install DOS with VMware. It took a lot of effort to find the network card driver, and many links are broken.

The general idea is to find the driver, find the browser, and configure it.

There are two types of network card drivers (NDIS Driver and Packet Drivers). The software requires Packet Drivers (download address http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm). If you can't find the Packet Drivers driver, take a look at this http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=33390&fpage=1. (NDIS Driver can be extracted from some DOS boot disks, such as maxdos. When installing in Sandbox, extract a large exe file, change the extension to img, and extract the driver from 7z. It's an exe (com) command, and the parameters can be Baidued by yourself. Generally, it's xxxx.exe 0x60 or xxxx.exe int=60 (check the parameters by yourself).

Install Arachne by yourself. This browser is not bad. Set the IP and so on by yourself.

Use Arachne (download address http://www.glennmcc.org/) to surf the Internet. You can barely open HTTP web pages. Other things haven't been tested. At that time, the Chinese system like UCDOS wasn't loaded, so Baidu was garbled (maybe related to the browser encoding). It can be seen barely.

As for the TCP/IP protocol, it's not easy to configure. Installed Microsoft Network Client 3.0, but I don't know how to configure it well, so I gave up.

Found a wget for dos on foreign websites, but it's useless. I don't know how to configure it.

Others, if some software can't be found on Baidu, you can try some foreign search engines. After all, the software under DOS is too old.

Don't know how to configure memory. Installing Microsoft Network Client 3.0 takes a lot of memory.

Also, you can find web.archive.org from historical web pages (if it can't be opened, find a way by yourself).

Hope it can help some people in the future.

No time. Hope someone has time to package some drivers and upload them.

Put a few related web pages
http://www.kompx.com/en/arachne-web-browser-for-dos.htm
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/doscltcp.htm
https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/system.htm

Unexpectedly, it's answering my own question. Sweat, I forgot this matter myself.

[ Last edited by 610100 on 2018-12-13 at 00:38 ]

Floor1　610100	Posted 2017-05-07 16:30
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Help, how to access the internet after installing MS DOS in VirtualBox? Can't find the virtual machine driver.

Floor2　zzz19760225	Posted 2017-05-07 18:04
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Interesting choice, although I don't know how to do it, so I just express it.

Floor3　610100	Posted 2018-12-13 00:36
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Several years have passed, and I'll just answer it myself. Surfing the Internet is very troublesome. I barely tried to install DOS with VMware. It took a lot of effort to find the network card driver, and many links are broken. The general idea is to find the driver, find the browser, and configure it. There are two types of network card drivers (NDIS Driver and Packet Drivers). The software requires Packet Drivers (download address http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm). If you can't find the Packet Drivers driver, take a look at this http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=33390&fpage=1. (NDIS Driver can be extracted from some DOS boot disks, such as maxdos. When installing in Sandbox, extract a large exe file, change the extension to img, and extract the driver from 7z. It's an exe (com) command, and the parameters can be Baidued by yourself. Generally, it's xxxx.exe 0x60 or xxxx.exe int=60 (check the parameters by yourself). Install Arachne by yourself. This browser is not bad. Set the IP and so on by yourself. Use Arachne (download address http://www.glennmcc.org/) to surf the Internet. You can barely open HTTP web pages. Other things haven't been tested. At that time, the Chinese system like UCDOS wasn't loaded, so Baidu was garbled (maybe related to the browser encoding). It can be seen barely. As for the TCP/IP protocol, it's not easy to configure. Installed Microsoft Network Client 3.0, but I don't know how to configure it well, so I gave up. Found a wget for dos on foreign websites, but it's useless. I don't know how to configure it. Others, if some software can't be found on Baidu, you can try some foreign search engines. After all, the software under DOS is too old. Don't know how to configure memory. Installing Microsoft Network Client 3.0 takes a lot of memory. Also, you can find web.archive.org from historical web pages (if it can't be opened, find a way by yourself). Hope it can help some people in the future. No time. Hope someone has time to package some drivers and upload them. Put a few related web pages http://www.kompx.com/en/arachne-web-browser-for-dos.htm http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/doscltcp.htm https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/system.htm Unexpectedly, it's answering my own question. Sweat, I forgot this matter myself. [ Last edited by 610100 on 2018-12-13 at 00:38 ]

Floor5　DOSforever	Posted 2019-02-14 17:05
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Great! Forums, especially technical forums, should have this kind of spirit. When posting and replying, don't care about time and people, but rather be based on solving problems and exploring the essence of problems, as a knowledge point and knowledge base for everyone's learning.

Floor4　yzqzss	Posted 2018-12-14 02:25
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