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Re: 3C503 netboot



>I am having a hard time trying to get a 3C503 boot prom to work.  I know I
>have the server set up correctly since I have sucessfully netbooted a 3C509
>and a NE2000 network card.  Is there any trick to getting the card to
>recognize the boot rom?  I have tried every address setting and still not
>response from the network card.  If I use the floppy disk to boot with
>etherboot, it works just fine.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks.
>
>Todd Paisley
>paisley@erols.com

The 3c503 might have special values in the last two bytes of the
ROM space.  The makerom program knows about one such value but not all
possible values.  Try running romscan on the card as Markus suggested.
Have you tried seeing if the ROM contents are visible with DOS debug?
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