Other interesting links

Links to manufacturers of network cards

3Com. Find 3Com drivers here.
Accton. Find Accton drivers here.
CNet. Find CNet drivers here
Compaq. Find Compaq drivers here.
D-Link. Find D-Link drivers here.
Intel. Find drivers for cards with Intel chips here.
Microdyne. Drivers for Microdyne cards can only be loaded from an FTP server. It looks like there is no HTML interface for the driver archive. However, you can also find drivers for various other cards like Novell on this FTP server.
Realtek. Many NE2000 PCI cards are based on Realtek chipsets. You can get drivers here.
SysKonnect. Find SysKonnect drivers here.
Standard Microsystems Corp.. Older Western Digital cards have been taken over by SMC. Find drivers for all SMC and WD cards here.
Thomas Conrad Corp. has been taken over by Compaq. Find drivers for Thomas Conrad cards here.
Winbond. Find drivers for cards with Winbond chips here.
Xircom. Find drivers for Xircom cards here.

Some other interesting links regarding Netboot (this list is still under construction ;-)):

Crynwr is the author of the Packet driver collection. In this collection you can find many packet drivers, especially for older network cards.
Jargon's driver museum contains many drivers for older network cards.
Webopaedia page on network cards.
Network cards page by KMJ which describes cards seperated by bus and network architecture.
This article describes how to burn a netboot (or any other bootrom) code into an Award system BIOS.
Wired for Management is a technology developed by Intel for easier maintenance of client systems in a network. It includes the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE), a specification for booting diskless clients. Netboot will develop towards the Intel PXE specification.
With fli4l you can build your own network router based on Linux. Of course it is also possible to boot a fli4l router over a local network. How this can be done is explained here, but presently only in german.
Read this about how to use Netboot with the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP).
Etherboot This is a project similar to Netboot but based on the BSD bootrom code.
How to make an X Window Terminal out of your old or outdated PC.
Freefire is the home page of the Freefire project, which lists many resources for network security issues.

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Created by gero@gkminix.han.de, last modified 22.04.05