Re: No luck with RTL8139 & Etherboot 4.2

[Thomas Huber <judas@rz.fh-augsburg.de>]

Hi,


On 24-Aug-99, Klaus Muth wrote:

>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!

I tried the 4.2.6 version on my RTL8139 and the mac address was
printed correctly. (I have no bootserver for this card yet.)


>That is not all: if I configure my dhcpd to deliver to this mac address,
>the computer just reboots. 




>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)

Beside I`m having an erazer .. you can try this kind of equipment, people use
for getting brown skin.

bye

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