Re: [K12OSN] help with TLAN NICs

[Bert Rolston <bert rolston clear net nz>]

Hi Matthew,

It appears my reply may have been lost in the ether(net) as well.

TLAN's won't work.

It has been tried several times before on this list, and AFAIK never
succeeded.

All that happens is frustration levels rise.

It would be quicker to put in NICs with the RTL8xxx series chipsets.

HTH,
Bert


On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:54, Matthew Easton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My first post disappeared into the ether, so I'll try again.
> 
> I joined the list a few days ago.  I'm a consultant in the Los Angeles 
> area.  Several of my clients are nonprofits that have projects in the Los 
> Angeles Unified School District.  I'm helping out with an organization called 
> FSS-Tech, which runs a computer lab at the Tom Bradley Community Center.  I 
> recently installed K12LTSP from the 3.01 iso images, and now have 7 clients 
> booting from floppies.
> 
> We're doing this to (1) have a quick and easy way to "dual boot" so people 
> using the lab can be exposed to an alternative desktop.  (2) serve as a 
> working demonstration for area schools and others.
> 
> And now I have a question.  I have a number of old Compaq workstations that I 
> would like to boot.  They have a built in NIC that uses the TLAN (Thunderlan) 
> driver under Linux.  Unfortunately, there isn't a TLAN ROM image on 
> rom-o-matic.org and installing a supported card seems not to work.  
> 
> Anyone have a floppy boot image that will work with these cards?  
> Alternatively, I was thinking I could boot into Windows and make a VNC 
> connection, although this seems likely to be slow, as these are low-end 
> Pentiums.  Perhaps there's a better way?
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Matt Easton
> Sublunar Networks
> http://sublunar.com
> -- 
> Matthew Easton
> Sublunar Networks
> 
> 
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