www.disklessworkstations.com carries more roms,
including the 3C905B.
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Pepas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "SigLinux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: network card
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jason Pepas wrote:
>
> > I have been reading a lot of cool stuff lately about being able to
> > boot over a network (etherboot, NILO, etc) but I see that you have to
> > have a boot ROM socket on the NIC to support this kind of thing.
> >
> > Does anyone have any particular favorite NICs which are supported in
> > both Linux and windows, and have a boot ROM?
>
> My 3c905's have sockets for BOOT ROMs. The BOOT ROMs and burners are not
> supplied. ISTR the existence of an open-source/free program that will make
> them. I would imagine there exists some company that sells burned BOOT
> ROMs to make things a bit easier.
>
> The other half of it involves setting up a tftp (trivial ftp) server from
> which the client will d/l the kernel, et alia. (Atleast that's how it
> works with NCD X terminals.)
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too.
> -- Alexander Korda
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