ollie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > >it doesn't work. The switch I have shows it coming up 100 bt FDX, and > >etherboot says it is up 100bt FDX, but etherboot keeps complaining about > >timeouts .... anyone seen this? tcpdump shows that no packets are making > >it out of the box. > > > >Note these are TX Timeouts, not timeouts on DHCP responses. There is some > >problem with xmitting. > > > >And I still claim that this is the kind of thing that comes up with a > >forked driver tree :-) > > > > In order to make SiS 900 work. It is neceressary to enable BM DMA. I have no > idea if etherboot 5.1 has the code in > it. But 5.0.5 has.
Which means the bug got fixed between 5.1 and 5.0.5 cool. Although if this is the bug Ron was seeing this is simply funny. As enabling bus master DMA had to be done for virtually every ethernet card to work under LinuxBIOS. Eric
