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- In article <kasajianCoADJq.31o@netcom.com> kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian) writes:
- >From: kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian)
- >Subject: Trumpet Winsock without Ndis.. how?
- >Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 05:50:14 GMT
-
-
- >I'd like to use Trumpet Winsock with straight Windows 3.1. Right
- >now I'm using it with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and it works great!
- >I'm using the dis_pkt.dos driver to convert ndis to pkt so that winpkt
- >will see it.
-
- >But if don't have ndis, such as when I'm running vanilla Windows 3.1,
- >what pkt driver to I use? What will it talk to? I can't imagine
- >it talking directly to the hardware. Is there a version which will
- >talk to, say, ODI?
-
- >What about talking to the pkd drivers that come with FTP?
-
- Yeah, packets drivers talked directly to your board "back in the
- old days"... One probably is sitting on the diskettes that came with
- your board. The apps talk to the packet driver (perhaps through
- winpkt, or pktmux) and the packet driver runs the hardware. Then
- NDIS and ODI (etc) came along and wanted to be that layer at
- the hardware so vaious "shims" like dis_pkt and odipkt were written.
- Tha packet app talks "packetese" to the shim, that pass it on to the
- actual hardware driver (NDIS, ODI etc.). If you can't find a packet
- driver on the disks that came with you board, then there are huge
- collections of them at several anonymous ftp sites. If you need
- to go ftp'ing and don't know where to start, then e-mail me and I'll
- dig into my old stuff for some site addresses for you. For the
- configuration you're talking about (and assuning you don't have
- Novell), I go directly with the packet driver instead of an unnecessary
- shim.
- Doug
- jones@cbdb1.nimh.nih.gov
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