Due to some firewall configuration in our office I am not able to access the CVS server. I have download the CVS tar from the "daily snap shot " link in the Linuxbios homepage. IS it the latest code?
Are you able to get out on SSH, port 22? If so, set up CVS via SSH. Sourceforge make it quite easy to set up.
My Etherboot CVS environment looks like this...
CVSROOT=:ext:prl@cvs.etherboot.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/etherboot CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh