[K12OSN] need bootrom/etherboot for Compaq net1/33s
John G. Ruff
JRuff at Sihope.com
Thu Mar 16 19:44:42 UTC 2006
Most ISA cards need to be manually configured. Early ones with jumpers,
later ones with DOS software. The program name is 3C5X9CFG.EXE and
should be on the diskette that came with the card. It can be downloaded
from the 3Com website, probably here:
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509.htm
Normal setting are:
I/O Base: 0300x
IRQ: 10
Cable Type: Auto
Which may or not be appropriate in any particular situation.
jr
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:12 -0800, john wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sadly I am not having much luck getting this going. The BIOS on the
> Compaq Net1/33S doesn't recognize the 3COM 3C509 (which I sort of
> expected since I assume ISA doesn't do PnP), and there doesn't appear
> to be a way to assign it an I/O address and an interupt. I don't even
> get link on the hub when I plug it in.
>
> In the hope that the Etherboot CD could provide enough information to
> get me going I tried the 3c509 image from a boot floppy but the
> message I got was:
>
> Probing PCI nic
> pci_init: no Bios32 detected
>
> Probing ISA nic
> [3x509]
> <sleep>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you for sticking with me on this.
>
> John
>
> On 3/16/06, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Petre!
> >
> > The clarification and advice was very helpful.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On 3/16/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> > > I think Tim was trying to say that the 3c515 is the only supported ISA 10/100mb card,
> > > since 100mb to the client is usually recommended, and that even then, because of ISA bus
> > > limitations, you won't get 100mb. (There weren't many 100mb ISA cards made for just this
> > > reason.) You are correct, that Etherlink IIIs will work, but only at 10mb, although that
> > > can be adequate as others have said. I still have a few 10mb Etherlink IIIs in use.
> > > However, while most switches will drop to 10mb if that's what the NIC speed is, I have
> > > found that with later releases of LTSP the terminals/clients have trouble booting when
> > > connected this way. As such, if I have 10mb cards in my clients, I make it a point to
> > > connect them to a 10mb hub (yes, I still have some of those) which then connects to my
> > > main 100mb switch. Plus, I had to put some special settings, courtesy of Jim McQ, into
> > > /etc/dhcpd.conf (which you have to do anyway with ISA cards). Here's the relevant chunk
> > > from dhcpd.conf:
> > >
> > > host wendolene {
> > > hardware ethernet 00:20:AF:14:DB:0B;
> > > fixed-address 172.26.18.5;
> > > filename "/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp";
> > > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> > > option option-129 "NIC=3c509 MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048";
> > > }
> > >
> > > It's the "MOPTS=..." part that is necessary anymore with 10mb clients. HTH
> > >
> > > Petre
> > >
> > > john wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the helpful advice!
> > > >
> > > > Tim, It _seems_ like 3COM Etherlink III's are supported in ISA mode.
> > > > Am I misunderstanding the list of supported hardware. I have managed
> > > > to scare some of those up.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > On 3/15/06, Doug Simpson <veewee77 at alltel.net> wrote:
> > > >> john wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for your replies. These machines don't have any PCI slots, and
> > > >> I haven't dug up any ISA based 3COMs or the like yet.
> > > >>
> > > >> Chuck I don't understand the bootrom socket advice can you explain
> > > >> that to me a bit.
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >>
> > > >> John
> > > >>
> > > >> On 3/15/06, cliebow at midmaine.com <cliebow at midmaine.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> John: if the card/motherboard has a bootrom socket boot the sucker into
> > > >> knoppix-live ubuntu live..dsl live and get a pci id.
> > > >> if it has a pci slot free you "may" be able to put a bootroomed card in
> > > >> and boot from it..some will boot some wont...chuck
> > > >>
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> > > >> Likely, you can look on that old motherboard and find the chipset for the
> > > >> NIC that is on it and get the number and find native drivers for that
> > > >> chipset. This isan integrated NIC right? Once you find the chipset, you
> > > >> can then go to rom-0-matic and get a bootrom for it.
> > > >>
> > > >> Doug
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