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- From: gthome@dss1.austin.ibm.com (Gerry Thome (8-2256))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: ripl w/intel express
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.194922.13396@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:49:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.2110.1331@channel1>
- Sender: news@awdprime.austin.ibm.com (USENET News)
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- Organization: IBM, Austin
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- In article <1992Nov18.2110.1331@channel1> "richard hajinlian" <richard.hajinlian@channel1.com> writes:
- >Intel said their EitherExpress boot prom will not work with Lan Server.
- >Actually I found that you can't configure Lan Server for RIPL with out
- >a token ring card.
-
- This is NOT true. IBM Lan Server (2.0 and 3.0) support Ethernet RIPL with
- the IBM Ethernet Card and an ethernet card from 3Com. I don't know the
- specific level of ethernet card you would need from 3Com to do this.
-
- There may be additional cards supported but I don't know what they are.
-
- >
- >Is this true? Has anyone configured remote ipl for OS/2 or DOS on one
- >of these cards?
- >
- >Looks like I have to buy another disk.
- >Richard Hajinlian Billerica, Massachusetts
- >-----------------------------------------------------
- >"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has
- >already earned my contempt. He has been given a large
- >brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
- >fully suffice." ----- Albert Einstein
- >--
- >Channel 1 (R) Cambridge, MA
- >
- Gerry Thome
- IBM - Austin
- I don't speak for IBM...
-