I'm trying to get my machine to boot with tomsrtbt, with some success, but no networking. I have a Kingston KNE110TX PCI NIC, which uses the tulip driver. I have this card working on other machines, with the only difference that I can detect being the updated version of the tulip driver (2001 vs '99 in tomsrtbt).
After reading through wiki and mailing list archives, its still not clear to me how much of the kernel is custom compiled. Is updating this driver in the plans? Perhaps there's more information I can provide? Oh, the failure mode was: no connection to existing dhcpd manual configuration of networking results in no observable pings NIC lights on back of machine all flash on and off, signalling no link, no traffic. Oddly enough, whatever the old driver does to the card survives a soft reboot. That is, if I boot using tomsrtbt, then do a soft reboot and remove the disk, I get my existing linux system booting off the HDD, but with no working NIC again! I have to do a powerdown to get the NIC working! I did this three times just to make sure I wasn't making some other mistake... -- John White
