Re: netboot preview release

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> /dos/3c90x/ndis2/dos/protocol.ini
> makerom: protocol.ini [1]: text outside section definition
> [...]
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="protocol.ini"
> 
>     DriverName = "EL90X$"
> ;
> ; below are examples and explanations of some of the keywords supported by
> ; the 3C90X NDIS 2.01 driver.  most of the lines are simply comments.  the
> ; marked with "-->" are lines that can be edited (removing the ";-->" and
> ; lines replacing it with spaces, and modifying the right hand side as
> ; appropriate.
> [... more protocol.ini comments deleted ...]

This is not a full protocol.ini file, but just an explanation of the
parameters allowed with your NDIS driver. As I understand from the
comments, your NDIS driver needs just the DriverName parameter and
nothing else if there is just one 3C90X installed. Then you should try
the following protocol.ini file:

[el90xmac]
  drivername = EL90X$

These two lines should be sufficient for your protocol.ini file. If
you have any special requirements, you can add parameters as needed.
For example, you might want to try to increase speed by setting different
send and receive buffer sizes, etc. The parameters stated in you sample
file are just those which are understood in addition to the standard
parameters. See the NDIS2.01 specification for further exaplanation of
these standard parameters. This will obviously have to go into the
final 0.9 documentation. Thanks very much for pointing this out.

gero.

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