I forgot to mention that the program that prepares the boot EPROM writes
the correct lan chipset driver into th card. Alan B. Pearce was correct on
this, my bad. It's just that with the tools mentioned it is a simple
one-button action.

Peter

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Peter L. Peres wrote:

>On Tue, 28 May 2002, Walter Stenger Sabat wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Wich type of Eproms work on lan cards as boot rom's? Does the same eprom
>>work on many diferent lan cards?
>
>There is a standard for this. The EPROM code will run on any lan card that
>accepts EPROMs of that size and supports the standard. The standard is
>elaborated by Intel afaik. I used etherboot/netboot (Linux/BSD and other
>systems, including Windows and DOS) EPROMs (actually EEPROMs). They are
>drop-in compatible once you set up the lan card to recognize your EPROM
>type and map it at boot time.
>
>Peter
>
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