[K12OSN] Acer Travelmate 220 Laptop

[Peter Scheie]

You might try running tcpdump or wireshark on the server and see if the 
clients are even sending any dhcp requests onto the wire.

Petre

Ronnie Miller wrote:
> I've got several of these that I am using in a conventional lab, but they
> are failing as Windows pc's. I'm trying to get them to work as thin clients,
> but for some reason I can't get them to boot using PXE. I've gone through
> all the bios and PXE settings and everything looks fine, but once the PXE
> Version 2.0 message comes up with the option to go into PXE setup, it stops
> immediately after that - no message, nothing.
> 
> I have a couple of Acer 620's that I tried and they work like a champ. The
> 220's have Realtek 8139 nic's which, as far as I know, should be PXE
> compliant.
> 
> If I have to build a boot floppy, I will, but only as a last resort. I don't
> want to get rid of these machines since I think they'd make good clients
> once I get the boot issue resolved. Has anyone had any experience with these
> laptops?
> 
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