Richard, THe Aopen nick that we sell at DisklessWorkstations.com IS an rtl8139 based card. SO, you'd end up with 2 rtl8139's in your client. WHen etherboot starts executing, it's going to probe the pci bus, and pick the first 8139 chipset that it finds. I think you might be able to alter which one is found first, by moving the card to a different slot. Some motherboard find integrated cards first. Some find integrated cards last, and some treat the integrated devices as tho they are logically inn the middle of the PCI bus. In that case, some slots are found before looking at the entegrated cards, and some slots are found after looking at integrated devices.
You also may be able to turn off the internal NIC card through the bios. As for making it still work with Win98, I don't have an answer for you. JIm McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Richard Bos wrote: > we are involved setting up an ltsp project at a primary school. The computers > currently in use are equipped with a realtec 8139 nic and win98. The RT8139 > does not work well with the available hub and we would like to -add- the AOpen > nic as a 2nd nic in the computers. Is this possible and will the computers > be able to boot from the Aopen nic (we want to keep the win98 available as > fallback, until ltsp proved to be stable, etc)? > Or can you advice otherwise, e.g. just replace the RT8139 with the AOpen nic > (will it be easy to switch between netbooting and harddisk booting)? As far > as I have seen in the bios options, there is no possibility listed to boot > from the net. There are the usual, boot form FD, HD, scsi, cdrom > possibilities. > > http://www.DisklessWorkstations.Com/cgi-bin/web/100007.html > > -- > Thanks in advance, > > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
