On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:36, Rick Barnich wrote:
> >From the description of the problem, it similar to a situation I
> encountered with the rtl8139d. It turned out that the rtl8139 has an
> internal flag that enables the external boot rom. There is a utility on
> Realtek's web site that can be used to setup the rtl8139 chip. I had to
> put the nic in a windows machine, run their utility.(How humiliating!).

This is expected for all bootROM network cards.  Assume you need to
setup the card with a (DOS) utility, until proven otherwise.  With a lot
of these utilities you also need to set the bootROM size correctly.

> Now, both rtl8139c and rtl8139d cards both boot with the same rom.
> Apparently, since the majority of (windows) users don't boot from the
> net, the rom is disabled at the factory.
> 
> Rick Barnich
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