From: Peter Kaczuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GRUB bootp not working with WD/SMC NICs
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:10:44 +0100
> There seems to be a problem in bootp not working when using
> the WD/SMC NIC driver. I tested this on several machines that
> have a WD/SMC ISA NIC using GRUB 0.96.1 or 0.97 from CVS. On a machine
> that has a 3COM 90x PCI NIC all went fine.
> GRUB does recognize the WD/SMC NICs correctly with the right memory
> addresses but when running bootp the only answer is "sleep".
> I checked out the ethernet packets GRUB was sending with a sniffer
> and in deed only junk arrived to the server (something like
> "fragmented IP packet" with bogus IP and MAC addresses).
Does your NIC work with Etherboot?
Okuji
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