On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:02:56PM +0100, Morten wrote: > I am trying to boot from a workstation with a ISA 3c509b netcard. It get in > contact with the Server and start to load the kernel. It stops at "Mounting > /proc", and comes with an ERROR message that ISA card can not be detected > and that i have to write the NIC driver in the "NIC=" parameter.
For the archives: My oldest ltsp terminal, 386 SX/25 Mhz 8 Mb RAM, does not work with 3c509b. The etherboot code had no trouble using the card to fetch the kernel, but Linux could not find the card. It was not a PnP issue, not even 3c509cfg.exe could access the card correctly when it was installed in this machine, but I put the card in a pentium just to find out that PnP was disabled, it complained that there were more than six cards installed. The solution was to use another kind of NIC, I took a NE2000 clone, in this old machine and it worked perfectly. The 3c509b NIC worked flawlessly in another box. -- Hans Ekbrand
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