[K12OSN] need help with etherboot driver

Timothy Legge tlegge at rogers.com
Thu Oct 27 22:29:36 UTC 2005


steve gilmore wrote:
> I'm tryingto help out a local school with connecting some old IBM 
> laptops via a USB-2-Ethernet dongle. This is to connect about 6 laptops 
> to a k12ltsp server. The chip is a rtl8150. Drivers for windows came 
> with the units, but only the linuc source module came .
> So I've been trying to use etherboot to make a boot floppy with the 
> rtl8150.c file. All I get is a wack of errors and uspecified variable 
> calls with this driver. Anybody have any suggestions?

Unfortunately Etherboot does not currently support usb network "cards". 
  Support sor some USB devices was added to Etherboot but no one has 
looked at adding network device support for usb yet.

Tim




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