RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
> The embedded nics are the worse. Sending some one a $20 NIC is one > thing, a pc is quite another. I normally don't work on any drivers that > I don't have a NIC for so unless I buy an ASUS board (unlikely) or > someone else writes the driver you are out of luck. > > The existence of the drive

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
> Eh he he, the "card" is on-board my new Dell inspiron, so you want me to > send you the card? Hmmm, well after considering it for a nano second or > two.. nah I don't think so, might hang onto my new toy for a while > just the same thanks. But hey, I do understand your position re your > los

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Otherwise I'd put a ltsp (/opt/ltsp/i386) install on the HD (150 odd Mb) and grub/lilo from that when needed. Eh, Oh ok kinda didn't follow what you meant there but now I got it. That's not a bad idea, kinda like a Claytons diskless workstation. Doesn't really boot from the network but is still c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
If there is enough interest in this card it could be supported in Etherboot. These days (after spending a small fortune on NICs) I define enough interest as someone willing to send me a card). Eh he he, the "card" is on-board my new Dell inspiron, so you want me to send you the card? Hmmm, well

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-16 Thread Timothy Legge
> > I have a Dell laptop which I'd like to boot as an LTSP client but > > rom-o-matic doesn't list a driver for the broadcom 440 10/100 card that > > is in it. Does anyone have any info that might help, (like maybe it's a > > re-badged chip set, ok ok but I can hope can't I? ;-) > > > > Under RH9.0

[Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-16 Thread jam
Pete > I have a Dell laptop which I'd like to boot as an LTSP client but > rom-o-matic doesn't list a driver for the broadcom 440 10/100 card that > is in it. Does anyone have any info that might help, (like maybe it's a > re-badged chip set, ok ok but I can hope can't I? ;-) > > Under RH9.0 i

[Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Rundle
G'day, I have a Dell laptop which I'd like to boot as an LTSP client but rom-o-matic doesn't list a driver for the broadcom 440 10/100 card that is in it. Does anyone have any info that might help, (like maybe it's a re-badged chip set, ok ok but I can hope can't I? ;-) Under RH9.0 it uses the