A newer card could also have PXE support which would be great. Imagine
installing an OS to your virtual machine off of your virtual network, or
real network for that matter. :)
VMWARE supposedly supports an AMD PCInet card which should support PXE, but
I sure can't get it to work....you can't see any BIOS message posted from
the card during bootup so it all seems rather suspicious to me... :/
>From: Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [plex86] Networking
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:03:45 -0800
>
>On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:07:54PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:
> > Kevin had started on an NE2000 emulation in bochs......., and that is in
> > plex86. The only problem is that the system layer stuff to make it work
>has
> > only been finished for FreeBSD--and plex86 does not currently run on
> > FreeBSD. For more information, download the latest version of bochs &
>read
> > the included documentation......
>
>Hrrrm, while the NE2000 is one of the most supported cards, it is
>also a major pain. Since it's typically an ISA card, you have the
>whole mess or IRQ/IO and/or PnP. PCI is simply much cleaner. Not to
>mention that an emulation of a more modern card would support
>transfer rates far in exess of 10mb/s.
><< attach3 >>
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