From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 4:32:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pefstud.uniag.sk (pefstud.uniag.sk [193.87.98.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192EA14C22 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 04:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kostal@pefstud.uniag.sk) Received: from localhost (kostal@localhost) by pefstud.uniag.sk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28394 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:31:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kostal@pefstud.uniag.sk) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:31:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Ladislav Kostal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems running etherboot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have following problem: I would like to use diskless station with FreeBSD. It has 3com 3c905B NIC. I have tried etherboot, but without success. Building port and making floppy is ok, but after boot it hangs up at "Searching for server (BOOTP)." No packets are sent (tcpdump). It seems, that drivers in etherboot switches something wrong on card, because when I then boot win98 floppy with 3c90xcfg.exe, it prints error message (something about small throughput of bus) and test named "ethernet core loopback" fail in this config soft. Then I have to save new config to card and card works again. Have anyone such problem? It is not problem of computer or card, I have tried it on 2 others computers also equipped with 3c905B and card works using original PROM from 3com. It is very important for me, because I plan to build whole lab on diskless principle, so please help, if you could. Thanks much for any help Ladislav Kostal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message