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Re: Problems with etherboot and Boot prompt.



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At 01:28 PM 7/6/98 -0700, Doug wrote:

>Yes, I'm using your patches.  Didn't try without them.
Excellent - thankyou - this is the first report I've had that they actually
work for someone else - phew !

>with 2 cards, hopefully today I'll get my 2nd card back and try it out
>since I need to get it to work.
>
I'd be interested to hear about your results - and exactly how you expect
it to work - I'm sure Ken would also like to know how you'd expect two
cards to work.

>I'd say the driver is pretty good except for the 2 card problem.  

If you're expecting the machine with two cards to try each card until it
gets a valid bootp/dhcp - then I think you'll be disappointed. However the
eepro100b driver should at least bootp/dhcp from the first card in the pci
list. ( I'd love to have the time to rewrite the code to work with multiple
cards - but I have a job and a house and a girlfriend ).

I currently use my etherboot machine as a cheap 10/100 bridge with a PCI
3c590 and of course an Intel PCI/100+ performing the boot.

>
>Doug A.
> 

Your welcome anytime for advice - especially as you're using etherboot in a
production environment ( Ken we bow to you :-) 

Andy.


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