Date:  Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:02:00 -0500
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] autonic

From: tamatgmx.de (Timo Maier) 

At boot time detect PCI Network card and autoload it's driver

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/autonic.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=autonic.zip

readme:

in config sys insert a line like this
device=x:\autonic.sys   x = boot drive
replace the line of your nic card by this one
device=x:\ibmcom\macs\auto.os2 x = boot drive

on your hardisk or cdrom create directories d:\mptn\auto\xxxx.yyyy where
xxxx = pci vendor id and yyyy = pci device id into the directory xxxx.yyyy
copy protocol.ini and driver zzzz.os2 for the card

copy pcisnif.exe to x:\os2 x = boot drive

what do autonic.sys
===================

at boot time autnic during the init phase DosExecPgm a program called
snifpci.exe yes you can start a program from a device driver at boot time
because during init phase of your device driver you are at ring 3 the only
problem is that your program must be a 16 bits OS/2 program (no problem
with watcom 11C)

The program snifpci scan the pci env using the OEMHLP$ driver so put the
driver autonic.sys after the load of the OEMHLP$ driver.
When snifpci found a vendor id,device id it looks at x:\ibmcom\auto\ for a
directory matching.
If matching it copies the x:\ibmcom\auto\xxxx.yyyy\*.ini to
x:\ibmcom\protocol.ini and x:\ibmcom\xxxx.yyyy\*.os to
x:\ibmcom\macs\auto.os2


x:\ibmcom\8086.7200\protocol.ini
x:\ibmcom\8086.7200\ibmfe.os2
x:\ibmcom\8086.7300\protocol.ini
x:\ibmcom\8086.7300\ibmcndis.os2

etc...

TODO:

1. When booting from cdrom not copy the driver and protocol.ini to the
bootdrive (it is in read only) but put it on the ram disk Easy to do
because we must just change a 16 bit ring 3 program

2. When no match read the directory \ibmcom\macs\*.nif display the text
string for all the card available in the directory and let the user choose
the card

EMAIL : serge.sterckatfmsb.be

                           
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