[Etherboot-users] 8139D is ignored.

[Berend De S. <bd...@jh...>]

Hi,

Whe have been using Realtek 8139 cards successfully with Etherboot for a while 
now.  Recently the supplier changed the 8139C's with 8139D's.  Now the cards 
no longer work using the same bootROM (Etherboot 5.0.2).

If I put the cards in a Linux PC and run lspci -n -xxx -v, the only difference 
is the Mem/IO/IRQ settings (which must be different).  Device ID is the same.  
Revision is the same(!)

The 8139D's get ignored by the motherboard, the 8139C's work fine.  Both cards 
work in a different (slower) motherboard.  The motherboard the 8139D fails in 
is a Intel D845GEGR2, running a P4-1.7G

Does anyone know of any difference between the chips that would cause this?  
Is anyone aware of having to make any changes?

I'm currently looking at different makes of Realtek 8139 based cards.  I did 
recently get a response about 8029 based cards that require different timing 
on newer (faster) boards, and therefore don't work, so I'm hoping I can find 
a model of 8139 cards has better timing. (assuming its the same problem)


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Berend De Schouwer