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Re: hardware question



>You can use the Crynwr NE1000 packet driver with netboot. However, if
>your card only supports 8kB ROMs (which are very hard to find if you can
>find them at all, BTW) you will have to use FlashCard to get the code
>into your system as it will be larger than 8kB. It's probably cheaper
>and easier to get a new NE2000 clone and burn a proper netboot EPROM
>for it.

They can also be 16kB ROMs (27128) which are also 28 pin, you just
have to know whether the top address is pulled high, as it usually is,
or burn the code into both halves so it doesn't matter.

The Etherboot NE[12]000 bootrom will fit in 8kB.



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