Re: Realtek RTL8139 and netboot or etherboot

["Crispin Murphy" <crispin@myra.com>]

Read the documentation.

But you do want that option you specified, and then you want to feed it a
packet driver (DOS) for the card.  Read the dox for what command line parm's to
give it.  If you can't get a packet driver, try etherboot, it might support the
card.

Crispin



Urs Thuermann wrote:

> I wnat to boot Linux on a diskless using a Realtek RTL8139 100Mbit/s
> NIC.
>
> I have compiled netboot-0.9.0e but it seems the RTL8139 is not
> supprted.  Should I select
>
>         (0)     unknown card with user supplied driver
>
> and if so, where can I get a driver for this card?
>
> Or does etherboot support this NIC?  How large will the EPROM be with
> netboot and with etherboot?  Can I use 32KByte, i.e. 27256 types?
>
> urs
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