<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Vince Callaway <<a href="mailto:fastxr@gmail.com" target="_blank">fastxr@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I did a writeup here: <a href="http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Intel_PXE_NICs" target="_blank">http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Intel_PXE_NICs</a> On using cheap used Intel cards. Most have to be updated to boot properly. The advantage of using the Intel cards is that they perform better than realtec ones. The Intels do most of the work on the card where the Realtecs take CPU time. </blockquote></div> Thanks for this information and the writeup. What would be some model numbers for Intel cards with PXE? Only to add some experience I had with several servers setups. The best is the have a NIC (3com/Intel/Realtec) in the server that is supported out of the box from the installation. downloading and compiling drivers is supported but in the long just a hassle. Especially when you have no Internet connection to download the driver. I had this situation in a orphanage in West Timor. On the client side I am really amazed about the BootDisk522 and the support whatever NICs, at least whatever unkown model of NIC I use works with this boot floppy disk. A cheap PCI NIC with PXE inbuild would be a better solution for our projects with donated hardware. </div>