[K12OSN] need bootrom/etherboot for Compaq net1/33s

[john]

Thanks Petre!

The clarification and advice was very helpful.

John

On 3/16/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> I think Tim was trying to say that the 3c515 is the only supported ISA 10/100mb card,
> since 100mb to the client is usually recommended, and that even then, because of ISA bus
> limitations, you won't get 100mb. (There weren't many 100mb ISA cards made for just this
> reason.) You are correct, that Etherlink IIIs will work, but only at 10mb, although that
> can be adequate as others have said.  I still have a few 10mb Etherlink IIIs in use.
> However, while most switches will drop to 10mb if that's what the NIC speed is, I have
> found that with later releases of LTSP the terminals/clients have trouble booting when
> connected this way.  As such, if I have 10mb cards in my clients, I make it a point to
> connect them to a 10mb hub (yes, I still have some of those) which then connects to my
> main 100mb switch.  Plus, I had to put some special settings, courtesy of Jim McQ, into
> /etc/dhcpd.conf (which you have to do anyway with ISA cards).  Here's the relevant chunk
> from dhcpd.conf:
>
> host wendolene {
>          hardware ethernet     00:20:AF:14:DB:0B;
>          fixed-address         172.26.18.5;
>          filename              "/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp";
>          option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
>          option option-129 "NIC=3c509 MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048";
>      }
>
> It's the "MOPTS=..." part that is necessary anymore with 10mb clients.  HTH
>
> Petre
>
> john wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for the helpful advice!
> >
> > Tim, It _seems_ like 3COM Etherlink III's are supported in ISA mode.
> > Am I misunderstanding the list of supported hardware. I have managed
> > to scare some of those up.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On 3/15/06, Doug Simpson <veewee77 at alltel.net> wrote:
> >>  john wrote:
> >>  Hi all,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your replies. These machines don't have any PCI slots, and
> >> I haven't dug up any ISA based 3COMs or the like yet.
> >>
> >> Chuck I don't understand the bootrom socket advice can you explain
> >> that to me a bit.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> On 3/15/06, cliebow at midmaine.com <cliebow at midmaine.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>  John: if the card/motherboard has a bootrom socket boot the sucker into
> >> knoppix-live ubuntu live..dsl live and get a pci id.
> >> if it has a pci slot free you "may" be able to put a bootroomed card in
> >> and boot from it..some will boot some wont...chuck
> >>
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> >>  Likely, you can look on that old motherboard and find the chipset for the
> >> NIC that is on it and get the number and find native drivers for that
> >> chipset.  This isan integrated NIC right?  Once you find the chipset, you
> >> can then go to rom-0-matic and get a bootrom for it.
> >>
> >>  Doug
> >>
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