Re: Netbooting with DEC de205?

["David W. Ouyang" <douyang@dnrc.bell-labs.com>]

I use Etherboot for booting FreeBSD which supports 3com90x.

Oliver Freyd wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm setting up some linux diskless clients, and just don't
> succeed in gettig netboot to run with a de205 NIC. The only
> driver that worked for it was the NE2000 driver, but it didn't
> find the MAC adress, it always said 00:00:00...
> So the bootp request goes wrong :-(
> 
> Did anybody use this card before, and knows which driver is correct, and
> probably also io adress and irq?
> 
> I also have some machines with a 3Com905, that works fine, with
> a DOS packet driver a got from 3Com's ftp site, but at Compaq's site
> I couldn't get a driver for the de205.
> 
> BTW, under linux it takes the ewrk3 driver, and works fine, only
> the bootrom part doesn't work.
> 
> Well, many thanks, and keep up the good work...
> 
>   Oliver Freyd
> 
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