I'm hoping that someone out here knows a bit more about PXE and Etherboot than I do. I've got a group of Dell OptiPlex Gn+'s that have built in 3Com "Parallel Tasking" LAN ports that are supposedly some varient of the 3c90x series of cards. Unfortunately Dell's BIOS for these machines does not support PXE. I figured I'd give an Etherboot boot floppy from www.rom-o-matic.net a shot.
Well the floppy boots and says that it recognizes the card, even to the point of displaying the MAC address, but it never gets a PXE/DHCP offer. Sometimes it complains of packet fragmentation, but most of the time it just sits there and puts dots on the screen. I know that my PXE server works because my newer clients can boot PXE just fine. Does anyone have any tips for making this setup work? In case you're wondering, we're trying to have a magical floppy that we can put in these machines to turn them into PXES (http://pxes.sourceforge.net) thin clients so that they can be brought out of storage for temps and interns. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me. -- -- Benjamin Story () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email and Microsoft-specific /\ attachments. If I wanted to read HTML, I would have visited your website! Support open standards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
