[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Re[2]: [Etherboot-users] last chance help with etherboot

[J C]

Watch out for the 3c905B network cards. They have a bug in them that 
prevents them from reading the entire contents of the boot prom. Ive run 
into this myself and it manifests itself in various ways including: 
continually rebooting the computer, hard locks, not being able to find a 
boot device, etc. The fix is to comiple etherboot with the option 
'CFG_3C90X_BOOTROM_FIX' and then create a boot floppy based on this compiled 
version. Then simply boot the system once with the created boot floppy. 
After doing this the network card is forever fixed and should recognize the 
full PROM size and boot properly from the boot PROM. For more detail read 
3c90x.txt in the src directory of the etherboot source.

Justin Chevrier

I�m experiencing the same problem. I can flash the 3com 3c905b-tx card, it
says no ROM install with vortex-dialog -e but vortex-dialog -B says bios 
rom
id 1f d5 - vendor Atmel. I'm a bit confused, all help is appreciated.

Best regards,

Peter
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