>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> writes: Robert> I need setup several diskless clients - X terminals running Robert> under FreeBSD. I am looking for a DOS utility that could do Robert> boot FreeBSD through a 3c905c network card. However, I keep Robert> running into various problems I have not been able to solve: Robert> Etherboot does not seem to support 3c905c. I even came across Robert> some message explicitly stating this. Due to my poor Robert> connection to the Internet I have not been able to download Robert> the source to verify this. Moreover I have a feeling that Robert> etherboot can't be compiled into a DOS utility, only a ROM Robert> image. Ken> Etherboot supports FreeBSD booting (ELF and a.out) now since Ken> 4.2.8, (but from ROM or floppy, not DOS) you just need to add Ken> some ifdefs to the Config. As for the 905C, non-support is what's Ken> claimed by the author of the driver. I would like to see somebody Ken> give it a try with the existing driver. I don't know if the Ken> difference is minor and just involves a new PCI device ID and Ken> maybe some small mods to the code or is a major chip revision. Right... but etherboot doesn't do PXE (my problem)... Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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