>After some trial & error I got Etherboot to work with my rtl8139 card. >>From disk. After some research I got the right eproms and a burner, >found how to enable the rom and so on, but this dammed thing now >thinks, it has mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff when the bootrom is on >chard! Try compiling with all extra options turned off to fit the code into 32kB. Also make sure you write the right vendor and device ID into the header of the image by editing the Makefile, the BIOS may cross check. The BIOS should show you the vendor and device IDs when booting up. The datasheet claims the device ID is 0x8129, but I wonder if that's a mistake. Can someone tell me what the BIOS reports? >Anyone else, who has this problem? Anyone out there, who has an eprom >erazer? (This *§%§$"/!"§ things don't clear, even when some hours in >sunlight) You need a UV lamp in a light-tight box, sunlight is too weak, it will take weeks or even months. Unless you're under the ozone hole in Antarctica. :-) =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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