Re: support for VIA VT6102 Rhine II interface ?

[Ruben de Groot]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:58:47AM +0800, Feng Shuo typed:
> Are you using the patch on
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=6690 ?
> The patch is based on Etherboot-5.3.4, which is known to work well on
> some VIA NICs but hang on new ones :(
 
My bad :-( I just tested the same configuration on an identical
machine and this time it's working great, even without this patch.
Must have been Bad Hardware (TM). Sorry for the noise.

Ruben

> Feng Shuo
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> Subject: support for VIA VT6102 Rhine II interface ?
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Epia mini-itx motherboard with an onboard VIA 
> VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 network interface. This interface can boot 
> through PXE, so I've been trying to get pxegrub working with the
> following configure options:
> 
> ./configure --enable-via-rhine --enable-diskless
> 
> pxegrub is loaded on the epia system, but it complains:
> 
> Probing...[VIA 86C100]No ethernet card found.
> 
> Judging from netboot/via-rhine.c, it looks like the VIA 86C100 is
> the only supported controller chip (this is grub-0.94).
> 
> Is there any change the VT6102 will be supported in the future?
> 
> regards,
> Ruben de Groot
> 
> 
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