[K12OSN] need help with etherboot driver

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:29, Timothy Legge wrote:
> 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.

You can probably do a 'proof-of-concept' boot on those with a knoppix
CD if you enter 'knoppix 2' at the boot prompt, then 
'X -query server'
at the text mode prompt.
I'm not sure if there are any pre-built isos that will come up
like this automatically.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com