[vortex] Mini PCI card question

[Bogdan Costescu]

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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