[Etherboot-developers] Re: Possibly [PRISM] driver limitation?

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Boris Reisig wrote:
> Today I have been doing a bunch of tests. My test machine has 128mb of
> RAM and I was testing different size images and different network
> card/drivers to check for problems. Here are the results
> Realtek 8139 card with rtl8139 driver: 43mb,20mb, 19.3mb, 19.1mb, 17.6mb, 16.2mb, 15.2mb image files all booted OK.
> Realtek 8029 card with rtl8029 driver: 43mb,20mb, 19.3mb, 19.1mb, 17.6mb, 16.2mb, 15.2mb image files all booted OK also.
> Dlink DWL-520 with PRISM driver: 43mb failed, 20mb failed, 19.3mb ok, 19.1mb ok, 17.6mb,16.2mb ok, 15.2mb ok.
> It seems their seems to be a limitation in file size in the PRISM
> driver. Somewhere between 19.3mb-20mb's, the driver cannot allocate
> space or initialize the data from the image file. Hopefully we could
> fix this issue? [sooner the better..hehehe]

I'll help where I can, but I don't see this as an urgent problem - why
would you want to transfer images of 20MB and more anyway, particularly
over a slow wireless link?

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk