Re: n 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] boot order

Raphael Clifford <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Bogdan Costescu wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Raphael Clifford wrote:
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>>Changing the CMOS does nothing.
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>You mean the BIOS setting of the mainboard ?
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Yes. 

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>>I need windows to disable net booting (by running NIC doctor).
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>There is also a DOS-based utility distributed by 3Com that allows this 
>(IIRC it's called 3c90xcfg.exe).
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Yep. I made a freedos boot floppy and used that in the end. Thanks.

>Now for the Linux side, I have written a patch for vortex-diag some time 
>ago, which you can still find (along with a short explanation) at:
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>http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/biocomp/bogdan/tornado/
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>It will probably not apply to current version of vortex-diag, but you 
>might be able to extract the useful bits from it. I'm sorry, but I didn't 
>have (and still don't) any time to bring this patch up-to-date.
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OK. I may not have the skills to get that working though :(

Raphael


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