Intel PRO/100 M Mobile Connection

[Brenda]

Hi!

I hope this is the right place; I didn't see a general development 
list.  For that matter, I didn't see a way to subscribe to this one, so 
I won't see any replies that are just to the list.

I would like to install OpenBSD 3.3 (or current) on my Compaq TC1000 
tablet.  I do not have a CD drive the tablet can boot from, so I am 
trying to boot bsd.rd over the network using Grub.

I compiled Grub (from CVS as of August 16, 2003 -- it claims to be 0.93 
in the banner) on a Debian 2.2.20 machine I have access to, like so:

./configure --enable-diskless --enable-eepro100
make

Then, I copied stage2/pxegrub to my tftp directory, changed my dhcp 
config to hand that out to my tablet instead of the previous boot 
loader I had tried (pxelinux), and tried booting.  Grub came up fine 
except for this:

Probing...[EEPRO100]No ethernet card found.

It turns out (according to Windows XP, which is what is running on the 
tablet right now), the tablet has an "Intel(R) PRO/100 M Mobile 
Connection" Ethernet adapter.  However, the driver for this adapter was 
added to eepro100.c in etherboot after version 5.0.5, when grub  last 
snagged it.

etherboot seems to have changed quite a bit (and added a lot of driver 
support) since then; using what is in etherboot now, I could figure out 
how to get my particular Ethernet adapter working and supply you with a 
patch for grub, but I wondered whether there might be an effort to get 
synced up with all of etherboot sometime soon?  Also, are there any 
licensing reasons I should not copy code from the current etherboot?  
(And, I'm curious -- why are grub and etherboot separate projects?  
They seem pretty similar at first glance.)

Any other suggestions would be welcome as well. :)  I have heard that 
grub does not boot recent OpenBSD kernels yet, but then I heard that it 
boots them just like it boots NetBSD; which is true?  I figured if 
there are problems, I will run into them and can fix them then.

Brenda