Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!terminator!pisa.citi.umich.edu!rees From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Questions on Installing EnterNet Card. (DN3K) Message-ID: <523f655e.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 16:20:48 GMT References: Sender: usenet@terminator.cc.umich.edu (usenet news) Reply-To: rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project Lines: 21 In article , root@novatel.uucp (The Super (ab)User) writes: First make sure you have a 3c505. If you want to boot the thing diskless then you probably want the firmware that Apollo supplies when they sell you a 3c505 for 6 times the normal cost of the card, otherwise you don't care. We pay about the same whether we buy from Apollo or from a 3com distributor. I think it might be 10% more from Apollo but that's fair for the prom. This is with university discount. Make sure you have a rev12 or greater motherboard. This is what I was told by the people at Mentor, however, I had a rev3 motherboard (DN3010) and copied the boot prom out of a newer motherboard and it worked fine. I don't think the rev matters, but the boot prom does. To find out if yours supports ether booting, give it the "LN" (list networks) command. If it understands this, then you can boot from ether, if your ether board has the Apollo prom on it. Unfortunately, in general you can't boot from ether anyway because of bugs in netboot. But at least you can have fun trying.