More progress. I went to the 3Com site and downloaded a dos NIC detection utility which, when run, shows that the Boot ROM is disabled.
I still now need to find how to enable it. Robert Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 4:19 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Etherbooting using EPROM's on the NIC do you get any messages from the ethernet card on boot? something should flash past if it is reading the prom. On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:03:30 +1300 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have successfully set up LTSP using a floppy to boot 3Com 3C905b-tpo100 > Network cards but when I try to use an EPROM on the NIC it does not boot. > How do I know if the PC (I have tried 2) is capable of booting using the > eprom? > Maybe the ROM image is not burnt correctly? > One of the PC's has a BIOS option for "First Boot Device" to be LAN but this > option did not work either. > Any advice? > > Robert > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
