Roy, As far as I know, there are 2 different bootrom technologies called 'RPL'. One is from IBM, and the other is from Novell. One of that can be made to work with Linux, I don't recall which one.
My advice is to stick with Etherboot or PXE. Both of those work great with Linux and LTSP. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Roy Souther wrote: > I am looking at making a large purchase of NIC's. I am looking at the > StarTech ST100SW that has a socket for a BOOTROM and wake on LAN. These > cards are 10/100 PCI RTL8139's and only $10 each. I like RTL and have > never had any problems with them. > > My question is about the RPL. The StarTech.com BOOTROM100S chips they > sell for this card is RPL. I have never used RPL before, I have never > used a StarTech card before. When I look at the RTL8139 ROM's on > http://rom-o-matic.net I see about a dozen different RTL8139 ROM's for > different manufacturers. Does these mean I cannot use an EtherBoot ROM? > Does this mean I have to use an RPL BOOTROM? The pre-programmed RPL > chips are only $7 each but if I can get away with using EtherBoot I > would much rather that. > > I installed the Debian rpld server on my test server and I have one > other card from some other company that is suppose to use RPL but it > does not boot. I don't know why. I don't know if I have my rpld setup > right or not. I see that there is nothing in the LTSP lists about RPL. > The only think I could find about it was that it is old and mostly not > used any more. > > Is anyone using these cards? What can you tell me about the bootroms?Is > anyone using rpld? How well does it work compared to etherboot or PXE? > > Royce Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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
