Re: WD driver lockup (happens with etherboot 3.2 AND 4)

[dieter.rothacker@Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de (Dieter Rothacker)]

>I have a BIG problem with the netboot driver for WD cards.
>
>Here at my university's lab I have 4 old EISA-486 with SMC Ultra (8216C)
>NICs.
>While 1 of them with an Adaptec AHA 2740 and 16MB RAM works fine, the 3
>other machines have AHA 1740 adapters and 28MB RAM.
>
>These 3 machines hang when the driver probes the card. It prints out the MAC
>adress, and then the cursor freezes. I have tried various configurations
>with these horrible EISA-config-utils, but none works.

I forgot to say that these machines work flawlessly with OS/2 installed on
local harddisks, so I suspect a bug in etherboot.