DOS ain't dead - Packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips

dggionco

Buenos Aires - Argentina,
14.10.2025, 12:02

Packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips (Announce)

I found some packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips in the following site:

https://packetdriversdos.net/

Below are some descriptions:

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*** PC/TCP PACKET DRIVERS

1 - L1FPKT.EXE Packet driver for the Atheros AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Controller Version: 2.1.0.10
Copyright 2001-2008(c). Atheros Technology Corp.

2 - L1CPKT.EXE Packet driver for the Atheros AR813x/AR815x PCI-E Ethernet Controller Version: 2.0.2.1
Copyright 2001-2008(c). Atheros Technology Corp.

3 - L1EPKT.EXE Packet driver for the Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8132 PCI-E Ethernet Controller, ver 1.0.0.14
Copyright 2001-2008(c). Atheros Technology Corp.

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Apparently, they work with MS-DOS, but since I don't have NICs or motherboards with those Atheros chips, I haven't been able to test them.

tom Germany (West), 15.10.2025, 19:18 @ dggionco	Packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips Post reply
	> I found some packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips in the following site: > > > https://packetdriversdos.net/ So finally someone has taken the time to collect all available packet drivers for DOS on a single website. It only took 30 years Many thanks anyway

RayeR

CZ,
16.10.2025, 17:54

@ tom

Packet drivers for PCI-E Atheros chips

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I think that in recent years there was not appeared many new, AFAIK realtek is still updating their DOS drivers (RTL8111x) not sure if some other manufacturers...

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