ASUS Service No=276140

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:39:38PM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Ran across the following:
> 
>   wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/The_Saga_of_Network_Issues_and_Fixes
> 
> Seems there are netboot issues with the M3N78-VM. Sigh...

Seems rather vague on details.  It doesn't really say what kind of
issues.  It's hard to find good info on netboot since so few people do
it.

> What ought to be a 30 minute job, (or an afternoon's job if you
> include running to the shops to buy hardware) is turning into a
> multi-month pain in the @#$%

Well netboot has always been a pain.  I have some Decstation's that are
supposed to netboot, but don't because of firmware bugs.

> You would think that enough firms are doing POS (point-of-sale)
> systems and the like that this sort of stuff would get tested.

I suspect they don't netboot either in most cases.

> Maybe not, but the bugs should not be killer ones...

For 99.99% of users, if it boots windows from harddisk, then it isn't a
killer bios bug.

> Sigh... I have been looking at some of ATI based motherboards, there
> the issue is the poor quality of the ATI Linux graphics drivers.

Yep, no kidding.  Not sure I would want to go there.  Or there is
getting an add in network card that does netboot, but that wastes a slot
of course.

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Len Sorensen
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