Re: [Etherboot-developers] etheboot driver for dlink 538tx

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>    it seems i just can't get my ethernet cad dlink 538tx to boot through 
>etherboot. the documentation says 530tx should work with via-rhine or 
>realtek(rtl8139) but unfortunatly 538tx dosen't work with any of them. any 
>ideas folks......

Via Rhine and RTL8139 are actually quite different chips, but I suppose
it seems normal for Dlink to make very similar sounding NICs that have
different hardware. Probably the best thing to do is to find out the PCI
IDs of the NIC, either look at the BIOS display of the PCI devices at
power-on self-test, or run lspci after Linux has booted. From disk of
course. Then match the IDs against the list in the file NIC. Also the
name of the Linux driver that works is a good clue.

PS: This is a users list question, not a developers list question.