Hardware Issue

[Jim]

The messages, as they appear are:

Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v3.20
Supported NIC: 3Com 3C90XB / 3C90XC EtherLink PCI
(C) Copyright 1998 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corp
All rights reserved.

Versions:
Loader: v2.30
Bootware:v1.11
Config: v1.12
PXE: v1.10 (v0.99j)
UNDI: v1.40
PCI vendor device 10B7:9200
Bootware type 109 (6Dh)
Settings: 0001142A
Capabilities:FFFFFFFF
Defaults: 0001142
EEPROM: FFFFFFFF

Please reboot your system

End of boot msgs

For obvious reasons, I cannot do a dmsg.  At this point, my only option
is to reboot, which results in the same msg screen appearing.  Talk
abouut Catch 22.

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:04 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:55:34AM -0700, Jim wrote:
> > I put a second nic into an old box so I can put Ipcop on it.  Now, when
> > I reboot the machine, I get this weird screen full of msgs about the new
> > nic?  Is the new nic bad?
> 
> It's impossible to say, without some idea of the "weird screen full of
> msgs," what NIC you have, etc.
> 
> Can you copy some of the messages into an email? Can you see what dmesg
> has to say about the NIC?
>