Cheers for that, Nathan. Handy to know these things!
Stacey On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:47, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:31:34PM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just picked up an Intel Ether Express Pro 100 card - chipset > > I82559, with WOL MoBo cable included. > > > > Does the fxp driver for this nic actually make use of any of the > > seemingly "optimized for Windows" functionality:- > > Advanced management capabilities help lower support costs > > Wake on LAN* for remote system wake-up and troubleshooting > > Intel? Boot Agent for remote PC deployment > > Intel? PROSet II Utility for easy configuration > > > > Not that I'm looking to do any of that, but its handy to know just > > what's possible (or not). > > > > Thanks > > > > Stacey > > The LAN boot funtionality should work, but you will probably have to use > etherboot. I had this going recently and used a combination of > etherboot and Intel's bootagent software. Although, since the bootagent > software only wants to upload it's own code to the EEPROM on the card, I > had to create the boot code with etherboot and then somewhat trick > Intel's bootagent program to upload it to the card. One other note is > that I had to use Intel's old bootagent software. The new version would > cause DOS to crash, and I had to search around to find the old program. > I can't speak for the other features, but I thought I'd chime in on this > one at least. > > Nathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
