[3262] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Re 3c905c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (seph)
Sat Jan 6 04:14:19 2001
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 04:14:14 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200101060914.EAA21942@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu>
From: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
CC: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: "[3257] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
> It's the miniroot that will contain support for the card or not;
> information about its construction is located in
> /mit/install/rhlinux/miniroot/. I know very little about how the
> miniroot we have was constructed; that was tb's ball of wax while he
> was still here.
/mit/install/rhlinux/miniroot/initrd.img, appears to be the miniroot
filesystem, and that both the 3c59x and the 3c90x drivers are
present. If for some reason a card is unhappy with the former, it can
use the latter. I certainly wouldn't put it past 3com to change
firware and not model names.
seph
