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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Cejka Rudolf <xcejka00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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Subject: Re: DISKLESS and fxp0 problems
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Cejka Rudolf wrote:

> 
> I have big problem with DISKLESS box with "Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B
> Ethernet" cards. Does anybody use (successfully) this configuration?
> 
> I have one compiled kernel (2.2.X or -CURRENT: all is the same) for both
> SMC cards (ed0) and EtherExpress cards (fxp0). And if I try to boot this
> kernel on computer with SMC card, everything is ok. But if I try to boot
> exactly the same kernel on computer with EtherExpress card, kernel stops
> in BOOTP stage:
> 
> 	bootpc_init: using network interface 'fxp0'
> 	Bootpc testing starting
> 	bootpc hw address is 0:aa:0:bc:af:59
> 
> and after this, I see only repeated error messages:
> 
> 	BOOTP timeout for server 0xffffffff
> 	fxp0: device timeout
> 
> (It is possible no BOOTP packet was sent - it looks like that there is bug
> in kernel in initialization stage for fxp0.)

Are the Intel and SMC cards using the same IRQ?  Do you know that the
Intel works otherwise?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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