Hi Eilert,

Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 7:15:35 PM, ai scris:

E> Hi,

E> I've got one 3com EtherLink III card here with a boot PROM. It's an ISA
E> PNP and according to the DOS software I downloaded from 3com's site to
E> adjust it, everything works fine. I activated the boot PROM, and the
E> test program says it's ok. The boot PROM is labeled Bootware v1.0, 1992,
E> Lanworks Technologies (the chip is from another 3com card with an older
E> BNC connector).

E> When I boot the PC, the NIC is obviously trying to build up some 
E> connection to the server, but it just says no answer and Rx2 Rx2...

E> Up to now, I've been making boot diskettes for the various NICs here
E> according to the instructions for LTSP. That worked fine.

E> Just an idea why this old card doesn't get through to my DHCP server? Is
E> it looking for something else than DHCP? Can I use it here, anyway?

E> Thanks for all answers!

E> Rolf



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You need to write the bootrom with a suitable image (see Rom-o-Matic
and docs).

You can (theoretically) do with using this bootrom, but you must build
a customized kernel - see http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Diskless-HOWTO-10.html





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