On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > At least one of my nics wants the firmware (I've seen error > messages when booting without it), but it seemed to work fine > without it! I suspect it maybe had an old version. > > ĸen I have an old Pentium 3 system with a Tyan Thunder LE board and it has dual e100 devices.
Both devices require d101m_ucode.bin. Still works after a decade. Sure it'll work fine without the firmware, but it works better with it. A lot of devices will seem to work fine without the firmware, but they will work better with it. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
