Re: 3c905b-tx output file > 64k

[Peter Debus <pdebus@turing.une.edu.au>]

Is the file you are referring to 3C90X.COM in the NWCLIENT directory?

If so, this is NOT a packet driver, it is 3COM's ODI driver for the 3C905b, 
to be loaded after lsl and before Netware's ODI/IPX drivers ...

The driver is 62Kb, hence your "> 64kb" error message from "make
bootrom".  The driver would not work anyway as it is not a packet
driver. As gero said, the packet driver for 3C905b won't be ready until
3Q98 - according to 3COM.

Peter Debus
School of Mathematical Computer Sciences
University of New England
Armidale NSW 
Australia

Ph: 61 (0)267 73 2412 Fax: 61 (0)267 73 3312

> 
> 
> I got the packet driver from the ether disk 3.01  distribution from the
> 3com homepage site. It is in the nwclient directory.
> 
> On Sun, 31 May 1998, Gero Kuhlmann wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Khairul Azmi Abu Bakar <mie@mimos.my> wrote:
> > > I tried to use my new NIC 3com 3c905b-tx. I found the packet driver from
> > > dir nwclient and used it in my netboot-0.8. However I ended up to receive
> > > this error message.
> > > 
> > > makerom: size of output file >64kB
> > > make[1]: *** [bootrom] Error 37
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/test/netboot/makerom'
> > > make: *** [bootrom] Error 1
> > 
> > Obviously, your packet driver is way too large. But I wonder wher you got
> > this driver... according to an official 3Com statement (see ftp.3com.com,
> > file /PUB/NIC/3C90x/3c90xpkt.txt), the 3c905b packet driver will be available
> > in 3Q98...
> > 
> > gero.
> > 
>