>>I use NE2000-Clones with a RTL8019A chip. it is eeprom-configurable, >>no pnp (i486 ISA PC). >> >>In Etherboot 3.1 I used the 32-bit-code for the bootprom (ne2000.rom). >>all worked fine. >> >>In Etherboot 3.2 the with the 32-bit-bootprom (ne2000.rom) after the=3D2= >0 >>initial message the prom is trying to detect the card. at this >>point the system hangs (and the content of the CMOS-RAM is lost). > >I did some investigation in that problem. First: in etherboot 3.1 all >works fine. > >In Etherboot 3.2 the NE2000-code makes trouble. the WD-code works >fine. The patches for eepro from "William A. Arbaugh" <waa@dsl.cis.upenn= >.edu> >had no effect. In the thread 'Quick NE2000 Question = http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg00420.html' is a patch that let my ne2000 clones (also realtek) work fine. Lars -- Lars Mueller (lmuelle@gwdg.de) home page: http://www.gwdg.de/~lmuelle (PGP public key) PGP fingerprint: finger lmuelle@gwdu20.gwdg.de
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