The kernel provided with the kit only support the Ne2000 and 3C509 adaptor. To support more, you must recompile your kernel. The kernel 2.0 is somewhat smaller than 2.2 and this might be an issue on machine with 4 megs of ram.
The kit provides two config.kernel files. One for 2.0 and one for 2.2. Copy the proper config.kernel in /usr/src/linux/.config and do
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
add the adaptor(s) you need (not as module)
exit and save
# make dep && make clean && make bzImage
# copy arch/i386/boot/bzImage /root/xterm/boot/zImage
# cd /root/xterm
# ./makeboot.sh
If you have to configure many X terminals and they are all
sharing the same hardware configuration, then you can configure
the first one and duplicate the configuration. Knowing that
the DHCP server will allocate the IP number sequentially, you can
use the dupconfig.sh to populate the /var/xterminals/
directory.
This script ask you the IP of the reference X terminal, then the network first and last IP of the range. It will then duplicate the reference configuration for all IP in the range.
The xconf utility let you enter a name for the X terminal. The name goes in /var/xterminals/IP/sysconfig/TERMNAME.
Using the hostfromterm.sh script, you can produce an updated copy of your server /etc/hosts. Just run the script. It will walk all the TERMNAME files and produced an updated copy in /tmp/hosts. Check it out ot make sure all is fine and replace your /etc/hosts with it.
The prefix term- is inserted so you can tell apart terminal from host for easily.
Using loadlin.exe, you can boot an X terminal from DOS. If you want to boot either DOS or the terminal, insert the following code at the start of your autoexec.bat file.
choice /t:n,5 "Load Linux "
if errorlevel 2 goto End
c:linux
:End
This creates a small menu with a 5 seconds timeout, allowing you to start the X terminal. It assumes you have installed the supplied linux.bat file.
You can improve this boot menu, avoiding win-something from switching to graphic mode at boot time. You have then to modify the c:\msdos.sys (hidden file):
C:> attrib -R -S -H c:\msdos.sys
C:>edit c:\msdos.sys
Add then (in the section named [Options]) the following line:
Logo = 0
Save the file and put its attributes in their original state by doing
C:>attrib +R +S +H c:\msdos.sys