[plug] testing nic

[Cameron Patrick]

Ryan Smith wrote:

| after a couple of minutes the floppy light goes out. then it just sits
| there. No errors, signs of life.Nothing.
| 
| I just gave up after an hour of waiting.

Have you tried using an etherboot image to test it?  If you know what
type of card you have, you could head over to http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
and download an etherboot image that you can cat onto a floppy.

Cameron.