I suppose "support" was a poor choice of words. Yes, I know it is merely
emulating, I was just pointing out it didn't appear to be "complete" because
of the PXE thing.
Still it would be a nice feature to have in Plex86...
>From: Psyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [plex86] Networking
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 22:33:16 -0600
>
>VMWare doesnt "support" the AMD PCInet card. It emulates a card that has
>the same
>characteristics of it. Which means it might not support the PXE.
>
>Ohso * wrote:
>
> > A newer card could also have PXE support which would be great. Imagine
> > installing an OS to your virtual machine off of your virtual network, or
> > real network for that matter. :)
> >
> > VMWARE supposedly supports an AMD PCInet card which should support PXE,
>but
> > I sure can't get it to work....you can't see any BIOS message posted
>from
> > the card during bootup so it all seems rather suspicious to me... :/
> >
> > >From: Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Re: [plex86] Networking
> > >Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:03:45 -0800
> > >
> > >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:07:54PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:
> > > > Kevin had started on an NE2000 emulation in bochs......., and that
>is in
> > > > plex86. The only problem is that the system layer stuff to make it
>work
> > >has
> > > > only been finished for FreeBSD--and plex86 does not currently run on
> > > > FreeBSD. For more information, download the latest version of bochs
>&
> > >read
> > > > the included documentation......
> > >
> > >Hrrrm, while the NE2000 is one of the most supported cards, it is
> > >also a major pain. Since it's typically an ISA card, you have the
> > >whole mess or IRQ/IO and/or PnP. PCI is simply much cleaner. Not to
> > >mention that an emulation of a more modern card would support
> > >transfer rates far in exess of 10mb/s.
> > ><< attach3 >>
> >
> >
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