bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #960, Support for 3com Mini-PCI 3c556B...

 
 

You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your current authentication level.

bug #960: Support for 3com Mini-PCI 3c556B CardBus adapter

Submitter:  Patrick J. LoPresti <patl>
Submitted:  Wed 07 Aug 2002 09:40:05 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Network Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Action Request
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Release:  0.92 Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:37:52 AM UTC, comment #2: 

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform.  Unfortunately, GRUB 2 doesn't have network support yet, although there's ongoing work to implement it.  If you want to help on that, please contact <grub-devel@gnu.org>.

In the meantime, this bug doesn't apply.  I'm closing it.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Thu 08 Aug 2002 04:48:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

We make it a principle not to apply our own patches to the
network drivers. The canonical way is to submit patches
to Etherboot, then we can incorporate your changes from
Etherboot. I'm sorry that this isn't mentioned explicitly
anywhere.

Thanks,
Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Group administrator
Wed 07 Aug 2002 09:40:05 PM UTC, original submission:  

I was trying to use pxegrub to perform a diskless boot of an IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop, but I discovered that the built-in Ethernet hardware (3Com 3c556B Mini-PCI) was not supported by the GRUB.  I compared the Linux 3c59x driver with the GRUB 3c90x driver, and came up with a simple patch to support the 3c556B.  I can vouch that it works for me on my T20.

Since this patch adds support for more hardware and changes so little, I suggest applying it.  Thanks!

(You might be wondering why anybody would want to boot a diskless laptop.  Think "automated OS installation".)

Patrick J. LoPresti <patl>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attached Files
file #69:  patch.txt added by patl (6KiB - text/plain - Patch to add netboot support for 3c556B)

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by robertmh (Posted a comment)
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

     

    Follows 1 latest change.

    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2007-12-15 robertmh Open/ClosedOpen Closed

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-4b48.
    Corresponding source code