Re: PS/2 mice causing RTL8139+Asus mes/n+etherboot 4.2 to not boot

[Dirk von Suchodoletz <dirk@goe.net>]

> Yes, someone else on the list had this problem and there was no solution
> found so he went with serial mice. On the other hand some people did have
> success with this rtl8139 and PS/2 mice. It shouldn't be an IRQ problem
> because Etherboot doesn't use interrupts. It seems to happen to several
> motherboards but not other NICs so it's probably a driver problem. The
> only guess I had was that perhaps the RTL8139 driver had too large a
> footprint (32kB max) and was somehow scribbling over the piece of memory
> the BIOS uses at the top of 640KB. I suggested rebuilding rtl8139.{lz,}rom
> with all extra features removed. No reply on whether that worked.

Yes thats me :-)) I dont understand what you mean with the footprint :-(,
the code we use is of 16kB size...

So long,
	  Dirk 

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