Re: 3c905c support needed for etherboot

[Steve_Marfisi@3com.com]

Not sure what you need in terms of "etherboot project / tftp and so on",
Stephan. There is code (commercially) available from Bootix that support the
3c905c, in addition to ours. However, our code on the MBA ROM should be
sufficient,  - we have successfully booted in to at least 5 differernt Linux
kernals, including SuSE, with what we ship on the MBA.

Regards,

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Steve Marfisi
Manager, Technical Services
Lanworks Technologies Co.
3Com Business Connectivity Group

Phone:  905 238-5528
E-mail:   steve_marfisi@3com.com
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Stephan Lauffer <lauffer@ph-freiburg.de> on 02/24/2000 12:43:56 PM

To:   netboot@baghira.han.de
cc:   Steve Marfisi/US/3Com@3Com

Subject:  Re: 3c905c support needed for etherboot




Hi all!

I read the discussion about the 3c905c-tx-m.
We´ve here about 30 PCs with this cards and i want to set up
a discless-pc-pool based on ltsp.
(i know, that the intel etherexpress pro 100+ will work with etherboot).

It would be very interesting, if 3com could ship a mba with
support for the etherboot project/ tftp and so on...

At this time the only message i get (if i try to boot via bootp/tftp)
is:
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Node: 0050<and_so_on>
BOOTP.
TFTP.........................
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After that the pc stops. The only information on the bootp/tftp server is:
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Feb 24 18:34:49 lis3 in.tftpd[20239]: connect from 193.197.133.103
------------------

I´m using
tftpd.c,v 1.4 1999/09/26
bootpd version 2.4.3
(based on a SuSE-6.3 distribution)
The 3com card has the MBA version 4.00

Is there an other boot agent for this card available to flash the
mba?

Liebe Gruesse,
Stephan Lauffer

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