On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:35, Liam Marshall wrote: > I don't know, I haven't got them yet. What I have are machines with pci nics > with the empty socket for a boot rom. I imagine I can get whatever works. I > just nned to know what works. Most of the cards are a flavour of DLINK (528s > or 538s)
If you don't hae a eprom programmer look for a 3c905B it is psooible to use it to flash a rom. For the plcc square roms the DLink 530TXT and maybe the 550TX seems to work quite well. > a couple of my machines with on board nics don't have PXE but do have rpl-rom, > but these don't work, or I haven't figured out how to make them work. If I > can't I guess I will have to buy pci nics and get boot roms for them and > disable the on-board nics. It depends, I had some dells last week with onboard NICs. A bios upgrade swapped the non working code for PXE 2.0 and they worked fine. > Is a boot-rom chip and boot rom chip? I mean will any boot rom fit in a nic's > empty socket? No, some require 28 pins (UV Erasable chips) while others take 32 pin Flash roms. Others that have 32 pin sockets will take the 28pin chips as well. > Is etherboot a type or brand of boot rom? How to I program it? Or is that > automatic? Etherboot is an open source project that provides thew code that is put on a rom chip. See the answer above. Tim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
