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HI there. Probably my message is a bit off topic but I do not know where else I could be asking. . I'm running a linux terminal server with one client provided with a 3C509B ISA card. I boot the later with a floppy bootable rom image taken from http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ Everything is working just fine. I decided to try to set up a PXE network boot (I'll needed it for installing a linux system on a laptop with a capable XPE bios and without floppy or bootable c...

...owing 'boot:' prompt. config file is following: # PXE SYSLINUX config file - look at # http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php for syntax # # ---------- This is gate configure file ------- timeout 20 prompt 1 display motd default gate.zi IPAPPEND 1 I tried this with two old pentiums/133 with 3c509b or rtl8139 ethernet cards with etherboot 5.3.7 (5.3.12 does not work), same result. What is really vexing is that two newer computers - P4 and Athlon ?? that have 'PXE boot' option boot just perfectly using same configuration. I compiled the Syslinux package on P4 linux computer, howe...

I have used 3Com 3c509 nic width bnc coax. I have experienced that these cards used width FreeBSD and Samba is unusable due to speed. I tried to change the 3com card with a NE2000 compatible card, and there was a major change in speed. Has anyone else experienced such problem. Asgeir Stangeland

...transferring large files is a fraction of what it once was (2-3% in Windows task manager). Those Realtek cards are now sitting in machines that my family only use for web browsing... and with ADSL, they still taxes the cpu more than they should, in fact, I'd hazard a guess that a couple of old 3C509B ISA cards would probably hit the cpu less. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- School of Medical Education Development Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing University of Newcastle >-----Original Message----- >From: Malcolm Baldridge [mailt...