eboot does not work with my RealTek 8139.

I have a Sharp Actius MM20 laptop that I'm trying to use for debugging a
4.20 CEPC image. The laptop has a built in RTL8139 NIC that EBOOT does
not seem to recognize. I have a DOS utility that lists all of the PCI
devices and the NIC does show up with the correct vendor ID and device.
If I specify the IRQ and IO address it still does not work. This laptop
does not have a serial port so I can connect to that and find out what
is going on. Is it possible that eboot is seeing the wireless NIC and
trying to use it first? The wireless NIC vendor and device ids are
0x1260, 0x3890.

Can I write the debug information from EBOOT to the VGA device?
Can I use a card bus/PCMCIA NIC?

Regards,
Raymond Rogers

Raymond
Mon Dec 13 16:15:21 CST 2004

If I boot the laptop into Windows XP it finds and uses the NIC without
any problems. But, what I noticed is that the first three bytes of the
MAC address does not match any of the entries in EdbgVendorIds list in
MAIN.C. Does this matter? Can I just copy one of the existing 8139
entries and change the MAC address to match mine?

Regards,
Raymond

Raymond Rogers wrote:

> I have a Sharp Actius MM20 laptop that I'm trying to use for debugging
> a 4.20 CEPC image. The laptop has a built in RTL8139 NIC that EBOOT
> does not seem to recognize. I have a DOS utility that lists all of
> the PCI devices and the NIC does show up with the correct vendor ID
> and device. If I specify the IRQ and IO address it still does not
> work. This laptop does not have a serial port so I can connect to
> that and find out what is going on. Is it possible that eboot is
> seeing the wireless NIC and trying to use it first? The wireless NIC
> vendor and device ids are 0x1260, 0x3890.
>
> Can I write the debug information from EBOOT to the VGA device?
> Can I use a card bus/PCMCIA NIC?
>
> Regards,
> Raymond Rogers

Raymond
Mon Dec 13 16:54:53 CST 2004

I have a release build that I can boot using LOADCEPC.EXE with the
RTL8139 device driver included and the NIC works.

Raymond Rogers wrote:

> If I boot the laptop into Windows XP it finds and uses the NIC without
> any problems. But, what I noticed is that the first three bytes of
> the MAC address does not match any of the entries in EdbgVendorIds
> list in MAIN.C. Does this matter? Can I just copy one of the
> existing 8139 entries and change the MAC address to match mine?
>
> Regards,
> Raymond
>
> Raymond Rogers wrote:
>
>> I have a Sharp Actius MM20 laptop that I'm trying to use for
>> debugging a 4.20 CEPC image. The laptop has a built in RTL8139 NIC
>> that EBOOT does not seem to recognize. I have a DOS utility that
>> lists all of the PCI devices and the NIC does show up with the
>> correct vendor ID and device. If I specify the IRQ and IO address it
>> still does not work. This laptop does not have a serial port so I
>> can connect to that and find out what is going on. Is it possible
>> that eboot is seeing the wireless NIC and trying to use it first?
>> The wireless NIC vendor and device ids are 0x1260, 0x3890.
>>
>> Can I write the debug information from EBOOT to the VGA device?
>> Can I use a card bus/PCMCIA NIC?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Raymond Rogers
>