Re: [Etherboot-developers] tulip.c and NIC based on DEC 21140

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 3/28/01 5:53 AM Joerg Friedrich Joe...@un... 
wrote:
>I tried to use etherboot with a Kingston KNE100TX Card and failed.
>I always get TX timeouts when searching a DHCP-Server.
>This card is based on a DEC 21140-AF chip, which should work with the
>tulip-driver. 

Yes, the tulip.c driver of Etherboot needs to be updated to support more 
cards.  It does not have the MII code of the Linux driver, which can 
support well over 100 cards.

>The Problem is, that discribed at 
>http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip-media.html
>As far as I can see the linux-driver from Donald Becker can handle this 
>issue. I'll try if I'm able to rewrite the tulip-driver from Donald to 
>work with etherboot.

Many people would be very grateful to you if you added support for the 
DEC 21xxx based cards.  If I had one of those cards to play with, I might 
have done it by now, but all my tulip cards are clones.

If you decide to work on rewriting the Linux driver for Etherboot, I'd be 
happy to help. (I wrote the current tulip driver).  I'd also love to get 
hold of a 21xxx-based card for testing.  If anyone wants to send me one,  
I'll trade you a different card, or will buy it from you and pay shipping.

Regards,

Marty

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