Hi, Having done some more debugging lateley this is what I have found some _really_ strange 3c59x behavior when using bootnet.img from cooker (dated 09-30, downloaded from ftp.sunet.se). First a bit of background on what I'm doing and why. We currently have 77 pc's available to students in our computer labs, some of them run only linux, some of them run only windows, and most of them are dualbooted linux/windows. When installing i use kickstarted mandrake+minor extensions of our own. The only piece of hardware that is more-or-less identical on all our machines is the network card, some kind of 3c905B, and hence I am quite intrested in having a working 3c59x module on the bootnet.img diskette. The problems seems to be related to some strange kind of bios/nic-model combination. The most problems is on our new 466MHz machines. Then have an intel bx2 mobo and a 3c905b-mba network card. On thoose machines, it is _impossible_ to get dhcp working after a warm reset, after a cold reset it works most of the times, after hitting retry 1-7 (or sometimes more) times. When it's not working and I'm running a snoop/tcpdumd session I can clearly see how the client sits silent, doesn't send any dhcp requests at all during the time the "Sending DHCP request" dialog is chown, and ones the dialog "No dhcp replies recieved" pops up, some 5 dhcprequest packets are sent at once, which all gets answered by the dhcp server, no dhcpack replies from the client. But after 1-7 retries it suddenly works, don't ask me why ..... On our oldest machines (p133's) the network card isn't found at all after a warm reset, I can't even manally specify that it's a 3c905 card. After a cold reset everything works like a charm on thoose machines. On all other modells, all is fine, probing and dhcp. Maybe this is out of the scope of the cooker mailing-list, feel free to flame me. But since redhat-6.1's bootnet disk works just fine on all our computers I think the bug is to be found in the mandrake bootnet.img config. Since I can kickstart all of our machines, I don't consider this to be a major bug for us, it's just damm irritating having to press retry an unknown number of times. -- Niklas Paulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator at Dept. of Informatics , G�teborgs University "Linux isn't just an operating system: It's a way of life." - Andrew Leonard - Salon Magazine
