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Re: Please help with 3c905c




youve successfully configured your network booting and your kernel has been
downloaded successfully possibly some wrong module has been included or some
thing wrong that causes this dont know
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierfrancesco Caci" <ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org>
To: <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: Please help with 3c905c


>
>
> Hello, I need your assistance with this configuration:
>
> I have a pentium 60 with 16 MB of ram, a video card, a 3c905c and
> nothing else (no disk, no floppy, otherwise I wouldn't be here asking)
>
> I've tried to set up a suitable kernel with "bin00013.bin"
> (cat bin00013.bin bzImage > vmlinuz.net), but when the card has
> finished downloading the kernel from the dhcp/tftp server, it just
> locks up beeping and flooding the screen with garbage.
>
> I've tried to set up a bpbatch script, but it seems that bpbatch is
> geared towards a set of machine _with_ a HD, not totally diskless
> setups.
>
> What I'm asking you?
>
> If you are able to boot a totally diskless machine with a 3c905c card
> using either a modified kernel image or bpbatch, please pass me a full
> step-by-step instruction. I could not understand the existing docs
> myself.
>
> I would rather not flash away the content of the 3c905c eeprom to
> replace it with etherboot (which I know someone has successfully
> done), because I'm not at all confident with all the necessary steps
> and I fear I could irreparably damage the card.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Pf
>
> --
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
>  Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:p.caci@tin.it -
http://gusp.infogroup.it
>   Firenze - Italia  | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple
Affairs
>      Linux penny 2.4.0-test1 #1 Thu Jun 22 11:46:01 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
>
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