Re: [Hampshire] qemu with Windows ME no network

On Monday 12 Nov 2007, Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Monday 12 Nov 2007, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > On Monday 12 Nov 2007, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:08:39AM +0000, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > > > I've just installed Windows ME into a fresh qemu disk. (It
> > > > certainly shows installing Windows is no easy matter!)
> > > >
> > > > After a lot of waiting and restarting I now have the desktop
> > > > but no network connection. I'm sure last time I did this it
> > > > 'just worked'.
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> I found the default virtual network card from qemu didn't work with
> Win98 but did with Win2K, so for Win98 I used the alternate network
> setting. try:
>
> -net nic,model=ne2k_isa -net user
>

Thanks for the suggestion Adam, I did try that but still no joy.

After a lot of red herring catching I've found what it is (for me at
least). I took the hint from the non-working PnP BIOS in the Windows
device manager and downgraded my bochsbios package from the unstable
(and testing) version to 2.3-2 (the stable version). I then started
up qemu again, deleted the ACPI BIOS and PnP BIOS in the device
manager, restarted and ran the Windows 'Add New Hardware' wizard
which detected APM support and the PCI Bus (handy that!). After that
it picked up the default nic and various other critical-looking
components and the networking is all working fine, at least to the
extent of being able to browse the internet (albeit with IE!)

I'll report a bug against bochsbios but I can't think how to phrase it
just yet!

Thanks again, Peter