Re: Using PXE+GRUB to boot Linux on a Thinkpad T20

[Donald Becker]

On 29 Jul 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> First, the T20's onboard Ethernet card is a 3com 5c556B, which the
> pxegrub network drivers do not support.  But by comparing the Linux
> 3c59x driver with the GRUB 3c50x driver, I was able to patch the
> latter to work on the T20.

What PCI ID and version number does the T20's 556B report?  (Use 'lspci -n'.)

There are several versions, with different requirements for turning on
the transceiver power.

> The real problem happens when I then try to start the network in
> Linux.  When I load the Linux 3c59x driver, it (correctly) probes the
> card as a 3c556B, but then prints this warning:
...
>   ***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found!
> 
> All attempts to access the network fail, printing messages like these:
> 
>   eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff

The card was not enabled.  Try the driver at
 http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
    ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/3c59x.c
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mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install
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