Re: Slow TFTP transfer with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B

[Andrew Coulthurst <andyc@svarog.demon.co.uk>]

Napi,

You are using EXACTLY the same card as me. Have you tried Etherboot-4.0
with my patches from the homepage ? I would be interested in your
results.
Especially if you think the card performs correctly after botoing.


The EtherExpress 100+ card you have supports a flash eprom 28F201 as far
as I recall. I'm still trying to find a program that will burn an image
onto the chip.
I assume you're using a floppy drive , or you have used another network
card with a standard ROM socket.

Andy.



Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
> 
> >I think the original message was relating to netboot.
> >
> >Etherboot seems to work flawlessly - and I've certainly had
> >netboot-0.7.2 working just fine ( although slower than etherboot ).
> >
> >Having thought about it some more , I'me sure Gero would like to know
> >which version of netboot the original author is using. Also perhaps
> >which packet driver ?
> 
> It is netboot-0.7.2.  The packet driver is the one from Crynwyr.
> 
> The card is on-board the motherboard using the Intel SB82558B chip.
> Actually the motherboard and NIC card boot fine after going thru the slow TFTP
> process.  The motherboard is ASUS SP98-N.
> 
> BTW, does anyone know if the card has some sort of Flash memory to load
> netboot in?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Napi