Re: LinkSys LNE100TX Card and EPROM Burner

[Lawrence Decker Winiarski <cuttedg2@teleport.com>]

Hi Marty,
the 27010 fits perfectly in the older 100MB Linksys card..however
I just noticed that the newer Linksys Card (the one with wake-on-lan)
_does_ have a different socket !!  Oh well, I'm pretty sure it will
need a different eprom.  ( 27256 maybe?..27010 was overkill anyway.)
I'll buy another eprom next time I go to the electronics store.

lemme know if you find out anything.

Larry
   

From: Larry Winiarski <cuttedg2@teleport.com>
Date: 06 Dec 1999 23:50:48 -0800
In-Reply-To: Marty Connor's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:02:31 -0500"
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Marty Connor <mdc@entity.com> writes:

> I have added support for the LNE100TX tulip clone to etherboot and can 
> load and boot the linux kernel via floppy.  The EPROM version is is not 
> recognized at all.
> 
> I called LINKSYS tech. support (non-800 number) and they didn't 
> understand netbooting, and couldn't give me any ideas.
> 
> The port number 27C010 is a 32 pin chip, while the socket is a 28 pin 
> socket. Is that right?  I'll burn one and give it a try, but it seems 
> very odd they wouldn't use a 32 pin socket.  Stranger things have 
> happened.  Also, you were using netboot and a packet driver, but I can't 
> understand why the boot rom wouldn't be recognized at all...
> 
> Does your card have a 32 pin socket or is the chip hanging off or 
> something?? This is very odd indeed.
> 
> Thanks for any help and information.  I hope to release and Etherboot 
> ntulip driver with LNE100TX support as soon as I can verify the BOOTROM 
> issue.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marty
> 
> On 10/10/1999 9:16 AM cuttedg2@teleport.com Larry Winiarski wrote:
> >Very straight forward.  I ordered a boot-rom from linksys and looked
> >at the number.  (27c010).  I only bought the linksys-bootrom because I
> >wanted the number.  That piece of info cost me $14.
> 
> 
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