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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:59:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Olaf Erb <erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netboot in prom
Message-ID:  <199706050759.JAA03430@insl2.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970605085657.GY12396@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <199706041707.KAA09050@tweetie-bird.cs.washington.edu>

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In article <19970605085657.GY12396@uriah.heep.sax.de> you write:
>As mef@cs.washington.edu wrote:
>
>> Does anyone use the netboot program in a prom on an ethernet card?
>
>Yep.  What's the problem?  The only thing i didn't get to work was
>booting off a 3C509 card, since it only provides for 8 KB of ROM,
>which is too few for netboot.

Jup, looks like I've the same problem with an old DE-100 card (ne1k 
compatible). My other cards (DEC de203) suck, too- looks like there's
only RPL and MOP bootproms. Newer WD and NE2k cards are supposed to
work though.

Olaf



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