Fixup for etherboot sickness. by Bill Cattey 1 August 2002 The Athena Linux install based on Etherboot would write values to the EEPROM of 3com cards that later proved toxic to correct operation on 100 MB networks, and toxic to use with the WinAthena RIS server. etherfix.img is a bootable DOS Floppy image containing a configuration program 3c90xcfg. If the floppy you want to put the image on has not been formatted, you can format it by: On a a linux machine, run the command "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440". or, on a solaris machine run the command "fdformat -U" Make sure you are copying the right data: attach bootkit; cd /mit/bootkit/rhlinux Copy the bootdisk image onto the floppy: Under Solaris: volcheck dd if=etherfix.img of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=18k conv=sync Under linux: dd if=etherfix.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k conv=sync Boot the floppy. run 3c90xcfg Use the menu commands to configure the NIC use the default of AUTOCONF Hit return to accept the default save of the configuration to the EEPROM. Share and enjoy, -wdc