Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!interlan!brad
From: brad@interlan.UUCP (Brad Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Boot PROM for NI5210.
Message-ID: <540@interlan.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 23:37:03 GMT
References: <8806171451.AA02658@vax.ftp.com> <8806172001.AA28772@cai.utah.edu>
Reply-To: brad@interlan.UUCP (Brad Kemp)
Organization: MICOM-Interlan, Boxborough, MA (1-800-LAN-TALK)
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In article <8806172001.AA28772@cai.utah.edu> b-davis%cai@CS.UTAH.EDU (Brad Davis) writes:
>>There may be others (someone here thinks
>>Novell can, too), but I think they're all based on private LAN packages.
>
>Yes, Novell can, but the interface card needs to have a PROM socket
>that conforms to IBM's definition for extending BIOS.  The Micom 5210
>card has NO such socket.  The 3c501 does (it's called MEMORY on my
>card).
>
>Brad Davis

	Both the NI5210 and the NI5010 have sockets for a boot prom. 
	On the NI5210 this socket can be used for either a boot prom or 
	extending the onboard memory to 16K. We currently ship only a
	Netware 2.0a boot prom for either of these cards.

Brad Kemp
MICOM-Interlan 
{mit-eddie,ulowell}!interlan!brad