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

Submitted by:  Patrick J. LoPresti <patl>
Submitted on:  Wed 07 Aug 2002 09:40:05 PM UTC  
 
Category: NetworkSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Action Request
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.92
Release: NoneReproducibility: 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>
Project 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>
Project 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>

 

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

 

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