Subject: Re: Ethernet cards
To: H. Eckert <ripley@office.in-berlin.de>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/31/1999 12:42:37
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, H. Eckert wrote:

> Quoting Matthew Reilly (mjreilly@flashcom.net):
> > It's my understanding that only the iMac and the Blue & White
> > G3's can netboot. Am I wrong, anyone?
> 
> In theory there could be an OF compliant card that hooks into
> the firmware to provide that capability for all OF machines.
> I doubt there exists such a card for the time being, though...
> 
> Greetings,
> 				Ripley

Well, apparently Asante makes a PCI OF-compliant network card - but that
would mean that I couldn't buy a new video card (my Mac has only 1 meg of
VRAM) because my other PCI slot is used up by the Avid card, so...

--fission