Re: vmware & Etherboot

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Has anybody got Etherboot to run in vmware (www.vmware.com)?  It emulates
>an AMD PCNET ethernet adapter.  Etherboot claims to support it.  FreeBSD
>Windows, Linux etc can work with it but Etherboot doesn't send out any
>packets.  Doing BOOTP or DHCP requests over the virtual network adapter
>does work since I have boot FreeBSD and Windows getting it via dhcpd on 
>the host machine.
>
>Etherboot reports transmit timeouts.

I have to say that I am not sure Etherboot still works with the Lance.
It was a long time ago and I got it working with the 16 bit version
then someone reported the 32 bit version worked and then I haven't
rechecked since.
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