Reserved memory for my nic

[Painkiller]

I know that exist a way for to reserved memory to a peripheral (in my case to my network card), and i know is via the irq and also in the system.ini file.

can does somebody please tell me how?

Thanx

[justacardshort]

Hi.
I'm very new here and looking for help actually, but i noticed your post and i feel obligated to reply.
I'm no Super Power Advanced User or anything like that .. but i do know the answer to your question.
it's quite simple, just:
find the IRQ(interrupt request) of the NIC under the resources tab in the NIC properties in the Device Manager - press your windows key and the pause key to access System Properties and find your NIC in the device manager under Network Adapters. Right click on the NIC and goto properties. Under the resource tab you will find the IRQ setting for that device e.g. mine is 3
goto: start button
click: run
type: sysedit
goto: system.ini
locate: [386enh]
under: [386enh]
type: IRQ(n)=(RAM)
for example: if you wanted to allocate 4 MB of RAM to your NIC which has an IRQ setting of 9 you would create this line under [386enh]:
IRQ09=4096

Reserving RAM for your Network Adapter might prove very useful, especially during CPU intensive tasks, or while gaming online. Reserving Specific amounts of RAM for specific IRQ's serves as a buffer to allow more stable operation of your device. Adding a 4Mb buffer to your Network Card's IRQ would ensure good overall performance and increase throughput with broadband Internet connections, such as DSL and Cable Modems.
By doing this you can achieve 0-10% performance gain and throughput gain.
Hope ya do well.

[Painkiller]

A lot of thanx man.

Happy new year

[onenaive]

So what does this semi-colon means here ?
Can I reserve RAM under this condition ?

; for 16-bit app support
[386Enh]
woafont=dosapp.fon
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON

[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv

[BertImmenschuh]

The semi-colon turns the line into a comment, not a command. The lines following under [386Enh] are dealing with a font/font substitution for EGA/CGA monitors and compatibility, not used much anymore.

[onenaive]

Okay, what about the other part of my question.
Can I reserve ram under this heading and it's
present form. Like just go to the end of the line
and type in the command for reserving the ram.

[BertImmenschuh]

I can't give you much about the memory. The only thing I have seen goes back to DOS days where you could use the setup disk for the NIC and make the settings. It changed the autoexec.bat and config.sys and saved the settings before Windows even got started. Sorry.