Re: bootp doesn't work with Realtek 8029

[Christoph Plattner]

This fix I made is half an year ago, I sent them to the etherboot group
in those
days. It was in 4.6.x (I don't know the exact version and time.....)

Cheers
        Christoph P.

Thierry Laronde wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:18:03PM +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> > I have not checked the last GRUB versions.
> > But what is the problem here.
> > I always thought that the RTL8029 *is* a NE2000/PCI.
> > I also had the problem with the etherboot package, and there I
> > did a bug fix to solve that (a forced 16bit setting was removed).
> >
> > Can you explain the differences to me in the drivers for
> > NE2000/PCI and RTL8029 ?
> 
> There is no difference, there is a mistake : I have had some problems with
> multiple card support, including drivers for RTL8029 and RTL8139, and the
> "wrong" one was used --- but _this_ has been fixed. So sorry for the
> mistake, thanks for pointing it, but if you have fixed the problem with the
> right driver, have you contributed your patches somewhere ?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
> http://www.cri74.org
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