Re: Failure to find EPROM on NIC

[matthew@netsol.net (netsol,matthew)]

I ran the rom-scan at dos, it says:
	Found ROM header at C800:0000; anounces 32k image (27c256 EPROM)

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> From: markus@infoscape.com
> To: netboot@baghira.han.de
> Subject: Failure to find EPROM on NIC
> Date: Tuesday, October 07, 1997 10:58 AM
> 
> netsol,matthew writes:
>  > Is there anyone who knows why I successfully burned the boot rom
binary
>  > into EPROM but when booted the PC, it seems that the PC didn't see the
NIC
>  > ROM at all.  There should be some messgae no matther what NIC I use,
right?
>  >  The ROM floppy version is tested OK.  And I checked the NIC's boot
rom
>  > configuration too.  don't know what step I did wrong.
> 
> There are a whole bunch of things, that can go wrong with installing
> an EPROM on a NIC. I would suggest that you download a copy of
> etherboot-3.2 from
> http://www.syd.dit.csiro.au/staff/ken/personal/etherboot/index.html
> Then install and run "rom-scan". This program will try to find all
> installed ROM extensions and will let you know about possible
> conflicts. Let us know, what "rom-scan" outputs.
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
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