From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 05:45:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA23197 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 05:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (root@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA23176 Thu, 2 May 1996 05:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id PAA13197; Thu, 2 May 1996 15:45:19 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:45:17 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: Luigi Rizzo cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ** Someone experience making Boot ROM for Ethernet card? ** In-Reply-To: <199604301618.SAA07128@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks Luigi !!!! Wrote 27256 ROMs and they work 100% !!! I do not understand why the 27512 did not work. The handbook with the card is saying clearly: ROM type 27512. Both are CMS Elite: card and book ;-) I write the netboot nb3890.rom to the EPROM and all 6 workstations boot now nice. The systems need some tuning: /dev/ must be in /var /var must be on local disk. I think there must be some modifications to /etc/rc to prevent sigle user mode. Maybe the trap -commands and some other ?? Can you, Luigi, give me advice or send your /etc/rc? I want to mount /etc/ with passwds from NFS server, and workstations should be as secure as possible: no boots to single user! Seppo On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > We are trying to make boot roms to SMC Elite. We have 27512 UV ROMS but > > > SMC seems not to work with them, the ROM code is not visible at D800 as it > > > should. > > > > > > It seems that 3c509 works. Is there some trick how to get SMC Elite to use > > > the ROM? > > > > The eprom may be too big for the SMC, it may max out at 27128... > > I have been using the Elite with 27256 ROMs for a long time. I believe > this is the maximum size for the Elite. > > Luigi >