Re: PCMCIA cards & etherboot

[Steve_Marfisi@3com.com]

Bob - you are right about what you need, in terms of BIOS support. There is only
one PCMCIA card on the market with boot ROM support - the 3Com 575CT (sorry, I
forget the letters that go on front of that...starts with 3C...).

The only notebooks on the market today that have the required BIOS support seem
to be the Dell Latitudes since about July / 2000. We have tried very recent IBMs
(T21) - no go. They will be releasing one shortly (T22?) that will have this
support.

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Steve Marfisi
Manager, Technical Services
Lanworks Technologies Co.
3Com Business Connectivity Group

Phone:  905 602-3232
E-mail:   steve_marfisi@3com.com
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Bob Edwards <Robert.Edwards@anu.edu.au> on 03/03/2001 07:17:41 AM

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Sent by:  Bob Edwards <Robert.Edwards@anu.edu.au>


To:   netboot@baghira.han.de
cc:    (Steve Marfisi/US/3Com)
Subject:  Re: PCMCIA cards & etherboot




Tom Watson wrote:
>
> I don't know if this has been brought up before or not, but...
>
> Has anyone done EtherBoot (or something similar) using a PCMCIA card
> EtherNet adapter?
>
> I just got an (older) Pen computer (Fujitsu Stylistic 1000) that has
> a 640x480 screen and pen based goodie, with VERY little disk space
> (340 Mb to be exact), and NO software.  I'm thinking that this might
> be a reasonable candidate to boot via an EtherNet PCMCIA card.
>
> The problem is HOW??
> Do PCMCIA cards have flash in them (or whatever)??
> Is this programmable??
> Can it be done??

I am not aware of any PCMCIA network cards with flash ROM in them. Even
if they did exist, you would still need the machines BIOS to actually
scan the PCMCIA card for the boot code - does your machine do this?

If you have a 340MB disk, why not boot from that and then mount stuff
you need using NFS?

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.
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