Hello, I noticed in my Dell laptop (D630), there is a boot option to boot from CardBus NIC.
Does anyone know which network adapter is compatible with this feature? Thanks.
I do not know of any. The Intel Pro100 Cardbus II and III supposedly had flashable rom for the PXE rom but I bought one about 15 years ago and... no not flashable even though the driver/manual CD contained the Intel flasher and PXE/RPL boot rom image. Thought the Dell 600 series had onboard NIC ?
Added: wow Dell released it in 2011 and it about same as my Vostro 1500 released 4 years earlier... except Vostro has nVidia 8600GT video not Intel and only a 8x dvd burner and T7500, not 24x and T7600. Just an obsevation...
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Horun wrote on 2023-03-02, 00:51:I do not know of any. The Intel Pro100 Cardbus II and III supposedly had flashable rom for the PXE rom but I bought one about 15 years ago and... no not flashable even though the driver/manual CD contained the Intel flasher and PXE/RPL boot rom image. Thought the Dell 600 series had onboard NIC ?
Added: wow Dell released it in 2011 and it about same as my Vostro 1500 released 4 years earlier... except Vostro has nVidia 8600GT video not Intel and only a 8x dvd burner and T7500, not 24x and T7600. Just an obsevation...
That's correct, Dell D630 has onboard NIC.
It's more for experiment 😀
Ahhh...If it is Intel based onboard NIC it may be capable of being flashed with the PXE boot rom but the motherboard would have to have a special 64k flashable rom chip for the NIC or space for it to be added to the main ROM,
one of my boards has it but is not a laptop...
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
