On Feb 3, 2008 3:32 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rtl8201_read_mode: Medialink on 100Mbs full duplex searching for server > (DHCP)...no IP adress [repeat until fed up] > > It seems that the DHCP is the problem then. > > Are you certain there's a good network link between the thin client server > (and its dhcp server) and the thin client? Can you start this running: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep DHCP > > and then boot a client. If the DHCP request makes it you should get a > line > like > Feb 3 13:12:35 robin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1d:d9:3e:da:eb > via eth0 > > where the mac address shown is that of your thin client. If you don't get > that, there's some loss of connectivity between server and client.
Here's the output: Feb 3 15:54:15 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:2a:43:ae:30:94 via eth1 Feb 3 15:54:15 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.245 to 00:2a:43:ae:30:94 via eth1 I got a bit confused because one of the kids must have tried to boot my upstairs computer too at the same time so I was getting discoveries and offers to and from both...but in any case, there is definitely connectivity and the MAC addresses are correct. > > > > and make sure pxelinux.0, nbi.img exist in /opt/ltsp/i386/. > > > > They were both in /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/. I copied them to /opt/ltsp/i386/ > and > > ran dhcp3-server restart but no change on the client boot. > > My mistake, those files don't need to be in the chroot, they need to be in > the tftp server directory, that is /var/lib/tftpboot/, so you should have > > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/nbi.img > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0 pxelinux.0 and nbi.img were actually not in that directory either. I copied them there but still no results. > > > You might as well remove the copies you made above. Thanks. > > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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