Re: EtherBoot 4.6.2 no net traffic on RTL8029 - Solution

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@alcatel.at>]

Yes, I found this out by doing diffs, a week ago.
The driver uses the 16BIT flag, but who tells this to the NIC ?

With friendly regards

	Christoph Plattner


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Pricop Ioan wrote:
> 
> Hello to all,
> 
> I posted a few days ago a question about EtherBoot not
> working where NetBoot works. Here is the solution
> (from the SourceForge site, EtherBoot project, Help
> discussions forum:
> 
>       BY: rcs
>       DATE: 06/26/00 03:00
>       SUBJECT: Etherboot-4.6.2 doesn't work!!!
> 
>       Hi!
> 
> It looks like from etherboot-4.5.5 rtl8029 support is
> broken.
> You can:
> 1. use any version befor 4.5.5 or
> 2. in file ns8390.c comment lines:
>       #ifdef INCLUDE_NS8390
>       eth_flags |= FLAG_16BIT; /* force 16-bit mode */
> 
>       #endif
> 
> Good luck,


> 
> =====
> Ioan (John) NIKY Pricop
> Bucharest - ROMANIA
> pniky@yahoo.com
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