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Setting up LAN on a PC-9821AS

Started by Shentok, December 22, 2024, 12:25:15 PM

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I recently bought a Buffalo LAN card (LGY-98J-T) with the intention of getting something like mTCP going in DOS since I can't install Windows 95 on this machine. I tried installing the drivers that are still hosted on their website. The included software can read the card, but I can't get farther than that. I tried another piece of software on Vector called TEENE and it reads the card as well, but can't report back any IP information. Anyone have any success with setting up FTP access on a 9821 that might have advice to share?

Basically my procedure was as followed:
Unpacked the EXE, ran the setup.
Modified autoexec.bat for mTCP and TEENE.
Modified the config.sys to load the driver LGY98.DOS (I think this is the driver, the readme mentions adding this to the config.sys.) and edited PROTOCOL.INI.

After setting up mTCP and TEENE's configs. I get nothing after that if I either load the included packet driver from the Buffalo source or TEENE's packet driver and try running various included software to finish setup.

I've also tried editing various configs to make the included drivers happy, but no luck. Made sure the IRQ information was correct as far as I can tell. The included software has a tool to let you know if you're set correctly and polls back information that the card can be seen.

A suggestion I saw that was regular DOS-related was loading up LSL.COM and IPXODI.COM along with the driver, but that didn't seem to make a difference.