[comp.unix.i386] Driver for WD8003/Locus PC-Interface

tsh@hila.hut.fi (Timo Hyvonen) (08/14/90)

Hi there!

I'm having a little problem getting my good ole' dos-machine connected 
to the network. The reason is (of course) lack of memory.

This lack is caused by this huge driver, bridge.ip. It consumes easily
about 40k of my DOS-memory and then other services stop.

Anyone got idea of even a *little* smaller driver for my device?
I'm getting desperate - again!!

"I love dos"

Timo

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dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer) (08/17/90)

In article <1990Aug14.103159.26913@santra.uucp> tsh@hila.hut.fi (Timo Hyvonen) writes:
>... problem getting my good ole' dos-machine connected to the network. ...
>This lack is caused by this huge driver, bridge.ip. It consumes easily
>about 40k of my DOS-memory and then other services stop.

Don't complain so much.  Many networks take up much more.  I have a friend
on IBM Token Ring, it appears to use > 150K.  I think NetWare uses about 50K
as PCI does.

Oh, by the way, I believe bridge.ip is the part that traps the BIOS calls
and sends them to the host via the ethernet driver.  You should have a separate
driver for your Ethernet controller.  At least my PCI (2.8.7) does.

Can anybody post how much PCNFS uses?

Dan
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richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) (08/21/90)

>Don't complain so much.  Many networks take up much more.  I have a friend
>on IBM Token Ring, it appears to use > 150K.  I think NetWare uses about 50K
>as PCI does.
>
> [...]
>
>Can anybody post how much PCNFS uses?

My recollection is that PC-NFS uses about 70K of memory.


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