From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 23 12:48:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00419 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00385; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00183; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation -- Problems needing to be addressed In-Reply-To: <199709230627.IAA18576@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Last time I called Linksys they were reluctantly willing to give me some unusual info about the NE2000 cards we have, and possibly I could buy a boot rom off them and take a look at it :>) On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > No only 10 megabit but I am going to get a linksys LNE100TX because I have > > a suspicion I may be able to hack it up and get it to work. There is some > > what is this suspicion based on, may I ask ? > > > pci code in the netboot stuff (and also the boot rom sockets on other > > I know, I wrote it :) but notices that different NE2000 clones behave > differently with the PCI ROM (probably it is a property of the bios, > not of the card). > > CHeers > Luigi >