>Where can I find info about: > >1. Enabling etherboot prom on my NIC >2. What kind of chip do I need for my NIC >3. any other relevant info about etherboot on chip. > >I use 3c905B 3COM Card
The 905 uses an EEPROM. Either there's a socket for it or it's soldered on the board. You can find a list of suitable EEPROMs in the mail archive, it was posted by a 3Com person, I think the 29C512 is one such chip. IIRC some people have also had success putting an EPROM in a DIP slot, since the pinouts of EPROMs and EEPROMs are compatible after a fashion, provided you align the bottom edges of the chip and socket. You can program the EEPROM in situ with the tools found in the contrib/3c90xutil directory of the Etherboot tarball. There should be tools to enable the EEPROM at the 3Com site, and IIRC Donald Becker also wrote one for Linux (www.scyld.com). ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.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
