On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Bertram Barth wrote:

> There are two things to mention; first there's quite a difference between
> the kernel-drivers and the standalone-drivers. The netboot-problems are
> caused by the standalone-driver which tries to access the lance's address-
> space via physical memory. Since the driver itself has no clue about the
> amount of physically avalable memory it just tries to setup the lance 
> for using lower 16MB of memory. It seems that there are some problems
> in that which causes machines with more the 16MB to fail. I could never
> check this by myself since mine has exactly 16MB. Second is that quite
> a bunch of problems arises from using virtual memory for talking with
> the lance, since the different models need to behave different when 
> talking to the lance.

Hey, I just noticed on cmop.sys.dec someone selling 2MB 80pin SIMMs for
the VS3100/M76.  Got some free memory slots Bertram? :-)

-brian.
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