VMWare doesnt "support" the AMD PCInet card. It emulates a card that has the same
characteristics of it. Which means it might not support the PXE.
Ohso * wrote:
> A newer card could also have PXE support which would be great. Imagine
> installing an OS to your virtual machine off of your virtual network, or
> real network for that matter. :)
>
> VMWARE supposedly supports an AMD PCInet card which should support PXE, but
> I sure can't get it to work....you can't see any BIOS message posted from
> the card during bootup so it all seems rather suspicious to me... :/
>
> >From: Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [plex86] Networking
> >Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:03:45 -0800
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:07:54PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:
> > > Kevin had started on an NE2000 emulation in bochs......., and that is in
> > > plex86. The only problem is that the system layer stuff to make it work
> >has
> > > only been finished for FreeBSD--and plex86 does not currently run on
> > > FreeBSD. For more information, download the latest version of bochs &
> >read
> > > the included documentation......
> >
> >Hrrrm, while the NE2000 is one of the most supported cards, it is
> >also a major pain. Since it's typically an ISA card, you have the
> >whole mess or IRQ/IO and/or PnP. PCI is simply much cleaner. Not to
> >mention that an emulation of a more modern card would support
> >transfer rates far in exess of 10mb/s.
> ><< attach3 >>
>
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