From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 8 15:20: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FDEA14DF3 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA28201; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA68029; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199910082217.PAA68029@whistle.com> Subject: Re: netbooting on fxp0? In-Reply-To: <14334.24410.547615.160531@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Oct 8, 99 05:17:14 pm" To: dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert writes: | The current batch of IBM etherjets (probe as fxp0) have dhcp-enabled | boot ROMs built into them. What is required to support these, or has | someone worked on this already. 100Mb cards could make a decent | diskless workstation/server. Look at ports/net/etherboot. It supports fxp0 and booting FreeBSD ELF kernels as well as Linux and DOS. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message