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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:21:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Netboot from a 100Mbps PCI card?
Message-ID:  <199810301021.LAA04306@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Hi,

We need to netboot a few diskless clients from a server, using
FastEthernet PCI network cards (not yet purchased, but we would
prefer intel EtherExpress 10/100, or maybe some DEC 21140-based
cards).

The problem is that /sys/i386/boot/netboot doesn't seem to
support _any_ PCI cards.  :-(

Is someone working on netboot code for any FastEthernet PCI
cards, or maybe is there even working code somewehere?
Any other hints how to solve the problem?

(Of course, we could put a kernel with bootp and NFS support
on a floppy and boot with that, but this would not be a real
solution to our problem.)

Any suggestions or any kind of help is greatly appreciated!

Regards
   Oliver Fromme

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Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
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