Disable the Plug N Play option on the 3C509B card and try again.

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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:00 AM
Subject: RE: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] No boot rom


>
> >a rom-o-matic floppy imitates the behaviour of an Etherboot boot ROM. It
is meant for users, like yourself,
> > who do not have a boot ROM for their network adapters or network
> >adapters without a boot ROM socket.
> >
> > A rom-o-matic boot floppy and a boot ROM are normally mutually
exclusive. If you have one you don't need the one.
>
> Before asking you, i read the documentation and spent two days tying to
> do what you say. But my network adapter (3c509B-TPO) refused
> everything i tried. The led on the switch a the other end of the cable
didn't
> even light : the network adapter is not activated by the floppy (i tried
all the
> functions of rom-o-matic).
> Finally I found a 3C905B-TX with a boot ROM socket, with no ROM in it.
> And it works : the led on the switch is on and the workstation searches
for
> a DHCP server.
> Could it be that the 3c509B-TPO , not having a socket, doesn't recognize
> instructions of boot ROM included in the boot floppy ?
>
> All my workstations have these 509 adapters. Do i have to change them
> all ?
>
> Thanks to all of you for answering me, i was a bit upset by this
> troublesome adapter.
>
> Romain Surleau.
>
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