http://www.geocities.com/cucnews/eprom.html take a look at the finnished product, it was very easy for me to do it all 8)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.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
