[K12OSN] Network boot hangs

[Peter Trifonov]

Barry,
> 
> Are these machines -pentium 1's- have onboard nics or add in cards? If
> these are integrated nics, it would be worth a try to pull an add on
They have add in cards from 3Com, Intel and AMD. They are able to download 
Linux kernel via TFTP and some executables via  NFS. They are even plugged
into different switches. 
The problem does not seem to be related to network.

> "disabling IRQ3,,blah,,blah.." or something similar while these
> machines boot?
No. 

With best regards,
P. Trifonov