From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 30 02:21:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14563 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14556 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:21:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04306 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:21:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:21:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199810301021.LAA04306@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netboot from a 100Mbps PCI card? Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message