Re: [Etherboot-users] ISA nic

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

Josafá Orrico wrote:
> Necessary of an image that functions with a nic ISA with chip UMC 9008F, 
> already I tried the image of 3c509 and 8390:ne but did not function, 
> please could helps me?

Wow. That's a blast from the past. A quick Google search suggests that 
this is one of the early PnP cards that can be configured in 
"jumperless" NE2000 mode, too. I do not believe that Etherboot supports 
this card in PnP mode, but if you reconfigure it to NE2000 mode, it 
might just work. You'll have to pick one of the supported I/O ports that 
the Etherboot NE2000 driver probes. Something like 0x300 or 0x280 are 
probably good guesses. I don't think the IRQ matters much for Etherboot, 
but it does matter for Linux. I do not know if Linux's NE2000 driver can 
autoprobe port and IRQ settings, so you might have to specify these 
parameters on the kernel command line when you are building the 
Etherboot NBI image.

Unfortunately, you are on your own as far as reconfiguring the card 
goes. You need to find the old DOS program that shipped with the card.

On the whole, it would be much easier if you bought a more modern card.


Markus