Re: IC Sockets On ethernet cards

[Robert L. Cochran]

Thanks Chris and Thom. There's an article on network booting in the October issue of Linux Magazine...hmmm. I'm getting to be very hardware centric now, I just built my own new computer (Intel P4, 2.8) and I'm learning from all this tremendously.

On the limbo-list I mentioned having trouble with the Promise PDC20276 RAID controller. It is really hard to work with the controller. I'll moan about that later on, not now. But I am learning a lot about hardware devices and the Linux drivers they need.

Bob

Chris Kloiber wrote:

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 18:54, Robert L. Cochran wrote:

I have 2 questions about ethernet devices.

1. What are the empty IC sockets on 10/100 PCI ethernet cards for?

Usually they are sockets for "boot rom", it would give the card the
ability to PXE boot from the network. They are obviously not needed for
most day to day use (unless you are trying to PXE boot the machines)

2. And where would I obtain whatever plugs into them?

Do a google search for "boot rom" and your network card model.

Thanks

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA