On 2/13/2001 9:01 PM Bob Andrews bo...@in... wrote:
>The rom-o-matic did not work on win98/IE, all you obtain are small useless
>html files. It did work under Linux. I wonder if the links were absolute
>not relative, since I have Apache server w/php on my other machine.
Sigh. What people (Micro~1 Internet Exploder victims) think they are
getting is "small useless html files" but in fact if either MIE followed
specifications and passed the supplied name through (some versions do,
some do not) or you supplied a name like rtl8139.lzrom yourself, you
would get a working rom image (or whatever flavor of image you asked
for). People get confused and believe that they are actually getting
html. I may just tell people to use Netscape for "best results".
>I pulled down the distro from sourceforge, and to be honest the
>documentation was so crappy I did not even bother.
oh really?
>Why clutter my disk
why indeed.
>when
>I don't know it works (or even what it does), and yes I did read the doc
>files. You mention that new stuff is on a mailing list, just say how to get
>it easily, or why anyone would care.
....
>Getting you to complete a sentence is
>like pulling hen's teeth. Try to finish a thought for once so we don't have
>to make 10 questions out of each phrase you spit out. If I actually cared,
>I'd have to ask you what you meant (ie., English) or just guess where it was
>and plod along. My expectations are that you would reply with an irrelevant
>or totally usely cryptic remark that solves nothing.
Well, this is an interesting strategy... you need help, so you brazenly
insult the volunteer developers. Better yet, you insult the primary
maintainer! I have to say, Sir, that it is a "novel" approach; Perhaps
it just doesn't translate well cross-culturally. I have my doubts about
the effectiveness of this particular strategy...
>What we are trying to do here should be simple (under 2 hours) - but you
>make it into a full-time effort for a week. If one have to read every line
>of someone's code to use it, it's trash - don't bother.
Does this mean you're giving up and going away? :-)
>So you understand the problem clearly: I have ami, 256 ram that can be
>written to. I have an rt8139 ethernet card. I want to make bootp or rarp
>work (linux). I want an eprom for that card OR reprogram the bios. The
>module for realtek card is 16K. HOW do I integrate it????
Just so *you* understand the problem clearly, this is a volunteer effort.
We spend our spare time (and money) supporting this project. Your
comments would make me angry if they didn't make me laugh first.
And may I say, that your command of language is not that great either.
The last paragraph makes little sense to me. I think you are saying that
you have an AMI BIOS, you have either 256MB or 256KB of RAM/FLASH. You
seem to be wanting to burn a ROM for your card, or you want to add code
to your AMI BIOS.
Look, I'd try to help you, but I don't like the way you talk to Ken. So
apologize publicly (and in good English), and maybe I'll change my mind.
:-)
Marty
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