At 2:24 PM -0400 6/15/00, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>At 9:47 AM -0700 6/15/00, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>:)Anyway since you want to switch between hard disk and network booting
>:)it's easy.  Just make sure the devalias for enet: is what you want
>:)for one option and that the boot-device is what you want for the
>:)other.  If you hold down the N key during boot it will use the enet
>:)devalias as the boot device and boot-device if you don't.
>
>AFAICT, enet is a devalias on all machines (someone let me know if I'm
>wrong).  The syntax for using it is different depending on the OF version.
>I've been lax about updating the diskless HOW-TO about netbooting macppc
>machines (in particular, how to set up dhcp).  It's on my list.

It's on my 7500/OF1.0.5 and I'm pretty sure it's also on my G4, so 
sounds right.

>
>In any case, the 'n' key *only* works on machines with OF >= 3.0.  Also
>(AFAIK), netbooting *only* works on the built-in ethernet device.  I don't
>know of any third-party ethernet cards with the necessary OF drivers built
>into them.

Generally true, but from tech-net:

At 4:56 AM -0700 6/14/00, Erik Fair wrote:
>Honest to god tulip cards are still being sold on eBay, if you know 
>what to look for; generally searching for "21140" and "21143" will 
>turn up various implementations.
>
>I personally find the Znyx ZX345 (a 21140 card) works best in MacPPC 
>systems because MacOS 9 will drive it without special drivers, in 
>addition to NetBSD talking to it nicely. It also seems to negotiate 
>Nway with all the different switches I have correctly. I believe 
>that Znyx is still using 21143's in their later model cards.
>
>However, it's even possible to find honest to god DEC DE500 cards 
>from time to time.
>
>	Erik <fair@clock.org>

Also there has been a comment that Asante (I think) has a card with 
full OF support.


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