Can anyone recommend a place to find the best deal of
quantity of 20-30 etherboot NICs?
Disklessworkstations.com charges about $35 each for
Linksys cards. Another place will sell them for $15
each, in quantities of 100 or more...but not less.
Any advice of anything in between, on price point?
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Matthew Tedder wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a place to find the best deal of
> quantity of 20-30 etherboot NICs?
> Disklessworkstations.com charges about $35 each for
> Linksys cards. Another place will sell them for $15
> each, in quantities of 100 or more...but not less.
>
Julius,
I found a nice 100/10BaseT card with wake-on-lan and
bootrom slot for $8.50 so far. A blank eprom is only
$5 or less.
Generally, their prices have always been pretty
high, except that you know you're getting something
that's definitely going to work with Linux/LTSP.
Buying in qu
Julius,
Yes.. The guy buying them has asked the purchasing
person to order an initial 10. We'll see how that
goes.
They've done great work on LTSP itself. What about
the guys who do the etherboot work? I think they
deserve something, too. As well as the rdesktop
people.
I'm not pe
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> I found a nice 100/10BaseT card with wake-on-lan and
> bootrom slot for $8.50 so far. A blank eprom is only
> $5 or less.
>
Matthew,
it was my understanding that you needed ISA cards - no wake-on-lan
on those! If you can use PCI, just buy the l
Julius,
Are you suggesting PXE now comes standard on all PCI
cards nowadays? For experimentation, I recently got a
set-top box case that uses mini-ITX boards, has USB
and PS/2 port on front and has a PCI slot on the back.
My two (soon to be three) labs biggest point of
failure is in the sw
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> Are you suggesting PXE now comes standard on all PCI
> cards nowadays? For experimentation, I recently got a
> set-top box case that uses mini-ITX boards, has USB
> and PS/2 port on front and has a PCI slot on the back.
>
>
> My two (soon to be three
> Yes.. The guy buying them has asked the purchasing
>person to order an initial 10. We'll see how that
>goes.
There are some links to companies and people who are willing to make
ROMs for you for a price or for free at www.etherboot.org/clinks.html If
you need lots and have the time, you coul
