Re: Booting with PCI NE2k (fwd)

["Joel B. Stalder" <joel@tsunami.uptimecomputers.com>]

Sorry folks.  Late at night.... Mis-groked which list it was that I was
reponding to.

joel


On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Harald Brueckner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use etherboot for many of my terminals without a problem but now I run into a
> problem which I can not solve and I did not even found any note about it in
> newsgroups or search engines.
>
> One of my terminals now got a PCI ethernet card which works fine if I boot Linux
> from bootdisks. Just the boot loader can't detect the card.
>
> It is a NE2k clone (and Linux detects it as a NE2k card) and it even has a PROM
> socket but it gets not detected by any boot loader I tried.

The boot loader? Is that lilo that you are using? If you are, have you
tried specifying the port, irq, etc. on the command line? That may do the
trick. There is a howto for ethernets and linux. I happen to have a copy
that I am attaching that may prove helpful. There is probably a more
up-to-date version somewhere.

(etc, etc, etc.)


joel