On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi, > > My vendor ist not able to deliver the 3C905-TX anymore. All i can get is > 3C905B-TX. > Unfortunately there is no packet driver for that NIC so i cannot use > netboot. I asked 3Com and they told me something about mid of october > (Their plan was to release it Q3CY98). > > Is there ANY way to get a bootrom for that NIC? Otherwise i'm really > stuck. > > Heinrich Rebehn > I think the old 3C905 packet driver will still work. At least in 10BaseT mode. By the way there was a hardware bug in the latest 3c905B -- the card would not see read parts of the bootrom correctly. I would recommend to use intel eepro100 rather. It comes with a neat flash ram slot, and rom can be programmed on the card without the eprom burner. Cheers, Alex =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Alex Harin <aoh@ucs.co.za> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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