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Thin client with old NE2000 compatible network card

I had a small stock of D-Link220 ISA network card.

As an example the ltsp010 worksation in DHCP is set up. All the set up can be done throught the Webmin interface.

But the resulting section in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf is like this:

host ltsp010 {
  hardware ethernet 00:80:C8:6C:57:5B;
  fixed-address ltsp010;
  filename "/tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1";
  option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
  option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=0x300 IRQ=10";
}

option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; is a magick string to tell ehterboot to load the kernel with option provided at line option-129.

Also the following lines are necessary (but usally present):

option option-128 code 128 = string;
option option-129 code 129 = text;

The boot disk is prepared with Rom-o-Matic, it seems to work only with version 5.0.10, I got problem with newer version.

Once this setup is done, a ltsp010 workstation can be set up in the Webmin LTSP module.