As one who DID go down the road of experimenting with custom boot ROMS (I didn't even try to burn them myself, I got disklessworkstations.com to do it for me), I want to echo Dereks thoughts... www.disklessworkstations.com provides some excellent products, and even more excellent service. The cards Derek mentioned specifically are name brand Linksys cards (good brand, never had any trouble with over 100 of them), and they test them, and even label the card itself (on the EDGE, where you can see it from OUTSIDE the case) with the MAC address. WELL worth the 5-10 extra bucks you are paying for the card over and above what you might be able to find it for at your local byte-shop (after the cost of the boot ROM). And I am in no way compensated for this 'endorsement', either. One more big reason to buy from them - by doing so, you are supporting them in their efforts at making LTSP the 'killer app' for Linux. 'Nuff said... Charles Marcus Satisfied disklessworkstations customer -----Original Message----- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP network card recommendations Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:11:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Derek Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I bought cards with boot proms all set up from http://www.disklessworkstations.com/ they are 10/100 cards and they cost me about $30-$35 each. I thought about burning proms and such, but it was worth it to me just to be able to plug them in and move on to something else. This is not an advertisement. I'm not assosciated with them in any way, but I think for the vast majority of people, there is no real reason to concern themselves with boot proms at all. I would have spent many times the cost difference in time trying to figure out what cards and what proms and what burner, etc. I'd say that unless you have a particular interest in proms, its worth buying a manufactured solution. Derek _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
