Re: LinkSys LNE100TX Card and EPROM Burner

[Rudhuwan Abu Bakar <duan@mimos.my>]

Hi

I have running into the same problem using DLINK DFE538 NIC. I can  boot
using a floppy but when I program the eprom( 27c512), the bios seems can't
detect the eprom presence. I have ask DLINK abou tthis.They seem
cluesless. I am just wondering what is the DLINK DFE538 ID if any?

Thanks in advance

duan

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Marty Connor wrote:

> 
> 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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