Re: 3C503 netboot

["Todd Paisley" <paisley@erols.com>]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll do that and see what the results are.
Thanks!

Todd Paisley

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>
To: netboot@baghira.han.de <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 4:53 AM
Subject: 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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