Hi Marko,<br><br>I had lots of interest in the intel nics a while back while doing netboot/etherboot stuff, you may peek into the contrib folder in the etherboot(gpxe?) sources. maybe you&#39;ll find the notes there useful. most of the tools are dos based but maybe you&#39;ll still find something to pick your brains.<br>

<br><br>Udu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/21 Marko Kraljevic <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krasnaya.zvezda@gmail.com">krasnaya.zvezda@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

The support for 3com NICs got me thinking about other NICs with boot ROMs.<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve got a few intel 100 pro PCI cards around, with the 82558 chipset.<br>
They have a PLCC socket, and a parallel interface; so they *should*<br>
support any PLCC 28/29 family chips. There&#39;s good documentation<br>
available, so I think adding support should not be too difficult.<br>
<br>
<br>
The only problem is, 82558 only supports up to 64kB [A0:16], and 82559<br>
only supports up to 128kB [A0:17]. So I&#39;m not sure if I should bother,<br>
especially with the PLCC socket, and the fact that we already have<br>
support for the cheap and common 3com cards.<br>
<br>
If you guys think it would be worthwhile to support, I can take a stab<br>
at it though. :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
datasheet for 82558:<br>
<a href="http://developer.intel.com/design/network/datashts/29736001.pdf" target="_blank">http://developer.intel.com/design/network/datashts/29736001.pdf</a><br>
<br>
datasheet for 82559:<br>
<a href="http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/73825902.pdf" target="_blank">http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/73825902.pdf</a><br>
<br>
<br>
I&#39;ll take a look into some of intel&#39;s other ethernet controller chips,<br>
see if anything supports &gt; 1Mbit. Although I have a suspicion that<br>
more modern controllers probably moved away from the parallel bus<br>
and/or dumped boot rom altogether. And of course - I&#39;ll have to make<br>
sure someone sold a physical card with them and a ROM socket!<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Udu E. Ogah<br>.~~~~~~~~~~.<br>