Re: [Etherboot-users] Compaq troubles

[Michael C. <mc...@de...>]

Thank you very for your reply Ken.

Ken Yap wrote:
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> >The DL360 has two NICs on the motherboard, Compaq designation NC3163.
> >Etherboot was unable to find these devices. I later plugged an Intel
> >EtherPro100+
> >into one of the two PCI slots. Etherboot found this card right away. (I
> >suspect Compaq
> >may be using an EISA bus for the NICs).
>
> It's an EISA bus if it takes those funny ISA like cards but with deep
> connectors and two rows of contacts. I haven't seen those in a while.
> Working ones that is, I have a couple of EISA mobos on my bench I'm
> going to strip for parts.
>
> Try reading the numbers on the network controller chip.  The NIC may be
> the TI ThunderLAN. If Linux uses the tlan driver, then this is it. There
> is no Etherboot driver unless someone volunteers to write one.
>

The DL360 is a 1U rack mount, dual P3, raid machine. It has
a 2 slot PCI riser that plugs into what looks like a EISA connector.
Etherboot CAN
find a supported NIC plugged into that riser.
On the motherboard, near the RJ45's are two Intel 82559s.
Linux uses the eepro100 as the network driver.
I just tried Netboot on the machine and it seems to work.


>
> >The DL380 has a single NIC on the motherboard. The eepro100 driver has
> >partial success on this machine. It reports finding an Intel
> >EtherExpressPro100.

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> It should be able to use the eepro100 driver in principle, but I don't
> really know what the problem is with the EEPROM. Maybe it's subtly
> different from the adaptor version. Does the Linux driver work for it?
>

I'll try Linux on the DL380 to find out what driver it uses.
Netboot has the same problem this machine - Invalid checksum after finding
the NIC....

Thanks again,
-Michael