>>The BIOS should show you the vendor and device IDs when booting up. >>The datasheet claims the device ID is 0x8129, but I wonder if that's a >>mistake. Can someone tell me what the BIOS reports? > >My 8139 shows up in BIOS: vendor 10EC device 8139 > >... I really start to wonder, how the rom found my card .. =) Good, I thought it should be 8139. The BIOS finds the card using the PCI config registers. Then it calls the extension BIOS on the NIC. I can see how it would work from the descriptions in PCI BIOS documents but I couldn't explain it to save my life. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> 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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