What is a difference between RPL bootrom based LAN card and PXE bootrom based LAN card? How to go about purchasing bootrom for LAN card ? I have Digi Link digi 5500 tx LAN card(davicom chipset) without bootrom. Which bootrom i shuould purchase for PXE booting?

I know that all Intel Ether Express Pro LAN cards come with PXE booting built-in.

I also managed to buy a Dlink PXE boot card from the market at 750 bucks. You can talk to a guy Venkat from Wysetek: 56662727 for this and give my reference.

Also I don't know about RPL bootrom based LAN cards, but I do know that if you download the image file from the rom-o-matic website you can get the images burned on a bootrom for the Digi Link cards you have.

http://www.rom-o-matic.net/

Take the image to a chap in Lamington Road called Jayesh Bhai (Maxcom) 23882728 / 23873251. He charges about 50 bucks for the bootrom and 20 bucks to burn the image file from floppy to bootrom.

Note: He does not have a CDROM drive on the PC that uses the Bootrom Burner so if you take the image files on CD you will have to go back and get them on floppy disk. ;-)

Since floppy disks are flaky, take them on 2-3 disks. The images files are usually under 50-100 KB.

Happy bootrom burning.

Regards

Rishi