Ken Yap writes: | | >Sounds, good but maybe we can make code changes to help them along until | >it gets fixed. I also tried using netboot & the AMD packet driver and | >no packets were sent out so it's not just Etherboot. Then I tried to | >boot DOS and the use the packet driver with the WATTCP stack and BOOTP | >worked just fine. Maybe the require some kind of system initialization | >before using the ethernet? I also use FreeDOS, AMD packet driver & WATTCP | >stack and it worked. | | Well it may not be just Etherboot but I think the code in Etherboot | has bugs. The AMD Lance uses DMA to transfer data and I'm sure I didn't | understand it correctly when I wrote the driver, so it doesn't always | work. I'd focus on why the DMA channel detection doesn't work. The Lance | is a nice controller though. Right up there with the Tulip and the 3Coms | in what I regard as good designs. My first guess was a DMA issue. It doesn't seem to be probing the DMA correctly since it always uses the first one in the list (or last one ... I forget). I'll look at that some more. However, something is strange when netboot with the AMD packet driver doesn't work. | Does VMWare allow you to single step code? It might be a great debugging | tool if it does. Not that I now of. It would be nice if it could. Doug A. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> 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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