Re: etherboot 3.2: NE2000-32 hangs

[Gerhard Zuber <zuber@berlin.snafu.de>]

>I use NE2000-Clones with a RTL8019A chip. it is eeprom-configurable,
>no pnp (i486 ISA PC).
>
>In Etherboot 3.1 I used the 32-bit-code for the bootprom (ne2000.rom).
>all worked fine.
>
>In Etherboot 3.2 the with the 32-bit-bootprom (ne2000.rom) after the=20
>initial message the prom is trying to detect the card. at this
>point the system hangs (and the content of the CMOS-RAM is lost).

I did some investigation in that problem. First: in etherboot 3.1 all
works fine.

In Etherboot 3.2 the NE2000-code makes trouble. the WD-code works
fine. The patches for eepro from  "William A. Arbaugh" <waa@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
had no effect.

So I think there must be some changes between 3.1 and 3.2 to the ne-code,
producing this problem.
The problem is: at beginning of probing the card, the bootcode hangs, the
machine must be hard resettet.

My card is an ISA-card and this problem occurs in ISA-PCs and in PCI-PCs.



Sincerely Yours / Mit freundlichen Grüßen:   Gerhard Zuber
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