From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 12:05:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09265 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09235 Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com by lserver.infoworld.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #12) id m0uEhff-000wz4C; Wed, 1 May 96 12:34 PDT Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.infoworld.com id AA830977363; Wed, 01 May 96 12:51:15 PST Date: Wed, 01 May 96 12:51:15 PST From: "Brett Glass" Message-Id: <9604018309.AA830977363@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Luigi Rizzo , phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: kallio@cc.jyu.fi, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** Someone experience making Boot ROM for Ethernet card? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We are trying to make boot roms to SMC Elite. We have 27512 UV ROMS but > > SMC seems not to work with them, the ROM code is not visible at D800 as it > > should. > > > > It seems that 3c509 works. Is there some trick how to get SMC Elite to use > > the ROM? > > The eprom may be too big for the SMC, it may max out at 27128... Another possibility: you may be forgetting to put the signature at the beginning of the ROM. It includes a special sequence (consisting of 5's and A's) followed by a byte containing the size of the ROM divided by 512 bytes. Initialization code is expected to follow immediately thereafter. --Brett