Re: LinkSys LNE100TX Card and EPROM Burner

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

On 12/8/1999 8:30 PM ken@nlc.net.au Ken Yap wrote:
>Marty, did you set the vendor and device IDs appropriately in the ROM?
>They may be LNE100TX specific.  I believe the BIOS maps in the ROM only
>after the IDs have been verified, so if the IDs don't match the device
>the BIOS may skip that ROM.

Bingo!  That was the problem.  I edited the Makefile and added:

	  cat $(PRZLOADER) $*.huf > lc82c115.lzrom
	  ./makerom -p 0x11AD,0xC115 -i'Etherboot/$(BITS) $(VERSION) (GPL) 
lc82c115.lzrom' lc82c115.lzrom

Which set the proper PCI IDs for the card in the ROM image.  I then 
burned an AM27C256 EPROM for the LNE100TX v2.0 tulip clone card, and it 
booted straight away!  Yes!

Thanks for the tip!  I debugged this for a day and a half, and couldn't 
figure out why the EPROM wasn't mapped properly at boot.  I'm so glad it 
wasn't a bug in the card!

So I have now verified that ntulip works with an mx98715A and an LC82C115 
based 10/100 tulip clone.  World Domination is perceptably closer :-)

Now I can sleep for a few hours.

Regards,

Marty

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