Moin,
I thought it might be a good solution for terminals. I was able to
compile boot rom code with netboot and the packetdriver (davicom 100mbit
network adaptor). It worked with the disk test version.
With the bios of the board comes a novell boot solution, but bases on ipx
and wasn't usable for our purposes. I found a tool for manipulating the
AWARD bios (cbrom.exe). With this tool you could extract parts of rom
(additionals like virus check, the award energy star logo ...) and insert
own code. I hope to test it with such a board next week. It may work to
extract and delete the novell boot code and insert the netboot code
instead. The bios flash rom (2Mbit) is big enough (approx. 100kbyte free).
Ciao,
Dirk
PS: I tried to communicate with the manufacturer but was totally ignored
:-( I cant understand manufacturers who use onboard ethernet,
implanting old novell stuff but not state of the art tcp/ip
bootp/tftp.
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, pmd wrote:
>
> I am trying to decide on which motherboard to buy to make a
> cheap and small network computer for a small office (10 users).
>
> I found PC Chips M598LMR or M599LMR have video/modem/sound/lan
> on board but cannot find out any info about the ethernet chips
> used or even if it has the ability to boot off the network.
>
> Has anyone got one of these boards working with etherboot or netboot and
> if so how?
>
> Has anyone got any other recomendations for integrated (video+lan)
> motherboards?
>
> Details of the boards are at:
> http://www.pcchips.com/598lmr.html
> http://www.pcchips.com/599lmr.html
> but the link to the manuals does not seem to work and a Web search
> failed to find anything other than price lists...
>
> Thanks
> -
> Phil (pmd@azad.demon.co.uk)
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