Problems with netboot & 3Com 905B

[roessner@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Ralph Roessner)]

Hi,

I tried to netboot a 3C905B with netboot 0.7.3 and got this far: Booting the
disk image works fine. Booting from EPROM works up to "Uncompressing ..." but
no further. I used the packet driver from the 3Com driver disk (EtherDisk
3.01, I think). The NIC was configured to contain a 64k (the smallest size
the configuration utility would allow, the compressed rom image is 32k)
EPROM at 0xCC000. I tried other base addresses but without success.

Curious enough, the configuration utility from said driver disk could not
find the NIC in our PCs, although it found the same card in other PCs
(haven't got the main board type ready, sorry. Contains Elsa
Winner2000/Office graphics card and nothing else beside the NIC). I got a
newer driver collection from 3Com support, containing a configuration
utility which found and configured the NIC even in our PCs. The new software
does not include a packet driver, so I suppose there is not much point in
hoping for a revised edition.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
   Ralph Roessner

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   Ralph Roessner                                   TU Darmstadt
   EMail: roessner@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de   CS Dept.