[K12OSN] Cheap PXE nics?

[Conrad Lawes]

Argon Technology offers Realtek NICs with PXE boot ROM onboard for  $15.99.

http://www.argontechnology.com/product.aspx/cid1/103/pid/159



On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Barry R Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net>wrote:

> Jamie,
>
> I assume these golden oldies do not have onboard nics?.If they do,and
> your BIOS rom is 2MB with some time invested you could add the PXE into
> the systems bios. I done this many moons ago.
> If no onboard nic,,the cheapest simplest way I used to do was bought
> Realtek8139 nics with the rom socket on it for $4 each,,and then bought
> the rom chips and a rom chip burner and pxe'd this nics this way.These
> Nics would setup fine on any waaayyy old machines we had when our school
> first started into K12LTSP.I tried almost every pci nic in existance at
> that time. This ends up being a little bit of money though,,but at least
> "You are doing it your way",,,Kinda like Elvis!..:)
>
> Take Care,
> Barry Cisna
>
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Regards,
Conrad Lawes
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