Re: PXE, Etherboot, and Frustration

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

Mike,

I don't have the chip at home with me this weekend, but according to
the Dell documentation, it is a 3C905 10/100 Mbps (integrated 3C916B
chip).  The chip had the Lucent name on it and the words "Parallel
Tasking"  There were a few numbers too which I couldn't seem to cross
reference on the net.  I'll post those Monday when I'm back at the
office.

From what my boss tells me, these cards have been problematic in
Windows too in that a 3c905 windows driver never seems to work for
them, but the "Dellified" driver works.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:39:54AM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > I'm hoping that someone out here knows a bit more about PXE and
> > Etherboot than I do.  I've got a group of Dell OptiPlex Gn+'s that
> > have built in 3Com "Parallel Tasking" LAN ports that are supposedly
> > some varient of the 3c90x series of cards.
> 
> I think I had a similar problem with a laptop docking station from Dell as well.
> The 3c90x rang a bell. IIRC, we had to go find some beta drivers from
> some guy working on that exact variant of the NIC chips and that the
> differences were pretty well known (in that the main drivers didn't work
> if you had certain flavors of this NIC chip). And it turns out, of course,
> that we had one of the certain flavors that was a) broken more than others,
> and b) not included in the standard drivers for any of the distros.
> 
> If you post the exact NIC and major chips on the card/mobo,
> I might be able to track down (aka remember) where we found some drivers.
> 
> I believe we reported the issue to both RH and MDK.
> 
> Mike808/
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