I am now working with etherboot ver 5.1.9.........my NIC is still not booting
but I was able to program it with the new version of etherboot...using
cromutil. at least I think it succeeded .. because it didn't hang this time.
I am trying to make sure that I have the correct pc id..
Good start.
1. Is the pci id going to be the same in different pc's? ( I program on one
and put the card in another to use (only one linux box))
The PCI IDs are a pair of numbers. They identify the vendor and device of the PCI card.
"lspci -n" is easier, but if you don't have the lspci program, you can get by with examining /proc:
$ cat /proc/bus/pci/devices
...
0158 10b79200 a 0000cc01 fc9ffc00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 fc9c0000 00000080 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00020000 3c59x
If you look at the second value, you see 10b7 9200 which are the PCI IDs of the ethernet card. If you look at the last value (3c59x), you will see the kernel module that services this device, I believe.
These are the numbers that identify the Vendor (10b7 3Com) and Device (9200 3C905C-TPO).
These are the numbers you want to match when you are making an Etherboot .lzrom or .zrom image for flashing or burning into an EPROM or ROM. These numbers are listed on the rom-o-matic.net "Choose NIC/ROM type:" menu.
2. I run cat /proc/pci and I get I/O at 0x1000 [0x107f] do I use 0x1000 or
0x107f when I program?
You would want 0x1000, which is the beginning address for IO.
Note that the IO address can differ between machines, because the card may be mapped into different IO addresses by the BIOS.
someday before I retire I hope to have this working! thanks,,
Keep at it, and I'm sure you'll succeed. Look at how much you've learned already.
Let us know how it goes.
Marty
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