[vortex] Mini PCI card question

[fes]

Hrm.  This sounds like a good idea.  Though I don't have another card.  I
do have my MAC address written down, thankfully, so if someone has a 556B
card and can make an EEPROM image, I would be most thankful...

Thanks,
fes

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, fes wrote:
>
> > However, booting to a linux boot disk gives an error, saying that PCI
> > device 10b7,ffff has unknown header ff.  Sounds like I whacked the eeprom
> > or something.
>
> Yes. AFAIK, the NIC needs info from EEPROM to initialize. The best ideea
> is to use the vortex-diag tool with another similar card and copy the
> content of the EEPROM.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bogdan Costescu
>
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