RE: How to made modern PCI NIC with PROM socket bootable?

I use realtek 8139 chipset cards from edimax.

They're cheap, but work fine.  They cost $25 NZ including a PXE boot rom
(about $19 US)

And PXES boots perfectly with this system.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vladimir Doykin
Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 5:30 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [pxes-devel] How to made modern PCI NIC with PROM socket bootable?


Hello pxes-devel,

Few years ago I made bootable 10Mb network cards from NE2000 ones (ISA and
PCI buses). I used special DOS setup utility which could set ioport, irq,
size [EE]PROM and special option 'Boot From PROM' (or something like this -
don't remember exactly). I took boot image from 'rom-o-matic', burnt it,
nested PROM in socket on netcards and was happy to download image from tftp
server using 'bootp' protocol.

Now I have widespread 100Mb PCI NICs on 'rtl8139' chipset. System doesn't
want to boot 
from NIC. There is no BIOS option 'Boot from NIC' on old motherboards. There
is no special utility for such network cards. What should I do to make it
bootable? 
Please, don't offer me to boot initial loader for netcard from floppy.

Thanks in advance,

Vladimir




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