Re: Problems with EEPR100 and etherboot

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>I have had problems using etherboot with Intel EEPRO100 card. It seems that
>etherboot can't initialize the card correctly since it reads strange
>numbers for MAC-address and complains about eeprom checksum error. This
>seems to happen always if the the card has revision less than five
>(cat /proc/pci reports eg. 'Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 1).').

Is it possible the earlier revisions of the controller had a different
register layout? There has been a disturbing tendency for some NIC
manufacturers to change the hardware without changing the model number,
e.g. the Netgear FA310TX changed from DEC Tulip chip to a clone but
didn't change model number.
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