On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:31:34PM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hi, > I've just picked up an Intel Ether Express Pro 100 card - chipset > I82559, with WOL MoBo cable included. > > Does the fxp driver for this nic actually make use of any of the > seemingly "optimized for Windows" functionality:- > Advanced management capabilities help lower support costs > Wake on LAN* for remote system wake-up and troubleshooting > Intel? Boot Agent for remote PC deployment > Intel? PROSet II Utility for easy configuration > > Not that I'm looking to do any of that, but its handy to know just > what's possible (or not). > > Thanks > > Stacey
The LAN boot funtionality should work, but you will probably have to use etherboot. I had this going recently and used a combination of etherboot and Intel's bootagent software. Although, since the bootagent software only wants to upload it's own code to the EEPROM on the card, I had to create the boot code with etherboot and then somewhat trick Intel's bootagent program to upload it to the card. One other note is that I had to use Intel's old bootagent software. The new version would cause DOS to crash, and I had to search around to find the old program. I can't speak for the other features, but I thought I'd chime in on this one at least. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
