On 11/25/2001 4:26 PM Marvin T Pascual [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I bought one piece of M27C512 EPROM for my Cnet PRO200S NIC (Davicom 9102, >supports 64K) but I do not know which of the following Ethernet Boot >Images from the ROM-O-MATIC site should I download. I'm confused of the >choices because I really don't have any idea about this. Actually, I'm >not the one who will burn the EPROM that I have, it's my friend who has >the EPROM Programmer. He uses Win9x for burning EPROMs. Any help >(HOW-TOs) will be much appreciated. Sorry for my ignorance. I really >don't know these stuffs. I just like the LTSP and I want to learn.
Thanks, you reminded me that a little while ago Jim McQuillan suggested I put a link to the PCI IDs file for Etherboot on http://rom-o-matic.net/ I just did that for the latest development release (http://rom-o-matic.net/5.0.4-mc3/). Thanks for reminding me, and thanks to Jim McQuillan for the original suggestion. ROM burning can be a little confusing and intimidating in the beginning, but don't worry. It's really pretty easy once you know a few basic things. For some background, check out: http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/userman-7.html which gives some basic ROM burning information. Now, what you want is a .lzrom file to burn into your EPROM. The big question is "which .lzrom file should I choose?". To figure this out, you need to know the PCI IDs of the card you are using. There are a number of ways to figure this out. If you're using GNU/Linux, the easiest way is probably to use the "lspci -n" command. If you don't have lspci, you can either download the RPM/deb/tarball from somewhere (it's tiny), or you can do: cat /proc/bus/pci/devices to get the raw bus information, and find your device. The second column is where the PCI IDs are. Match those digits (2 sets of 4 hex digits) with what you find at: http://rom-o-matic.net/5.0.4-mc3/src-5.0.4-mc3/NIC and you've found your ROM. For example for a 3c905b-tpo100 you'd be looking for: 10b79055 You can also visit the Etherboot home page at: http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ and read the Etherboot Users Guide online. You may also want to join the Etherboot-Users mailing list, where we engage in lively discussions of such exciting topics as: - ROM burning - Network Booting - Device Drivers We also help people who are having trouble getting started. The list is low volume, and the people are friendly. I hope this helps you get started, let us know how it goes. Marty --- Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly. Name: Marty Connor US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA Voice: (617) 491-6935, Fax: (617) 491-7046 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.thinguin.org/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
