I have used the SMC ultra lots with ltps 3.0
You don't need to specify IO (I don't anyway) and if you use dhcp V3 there
are some things you need to add the the dhcpd.conf file so you don't get the
syntax error.
Below is a sample of my dhcpd.conf also you are restarting dhcp after making
changes right (sorry just have to ask)
For dhcp 3 you need to add two lines at the top that look like this
option unique-ident-1 code 128 =string; <your unique-ident-1 can be anything
option unique-ident-2 code 129 = text; <this can be anything just not the
same as the first one
then in each host declaration you would have this
host mbegan {
hardware Ethernet 00:cd:15:bb:ff;
option routers 172.25.135.1;
fixed-address 172.25.135.92;
option unique-ident-1 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
option unique-ident-2 "NIC=smc-ultra";(specify IO if you need to but
mine I don't have too)
That should work cause it does for me.
Good luck hope it helps
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] ISA NIC Nightmare
I've got an SMC ISA NIC which works with the smc-ultra module code.
I trying to boot diskless, with this card, but having a terrible time of it.
I've wasted endless time on this.
I've tried the pre-compiled kernels included with ltsp 3.0. Everything has
been configured, but when booted, it ends up:
ERROR ! Could not automatically detect network card. ISA cards cannot be
detected so they require the NIC driver to be passed on the kernel command
line, usually specified in the option-129 in /etc/dhcpd.conf.
I have tried dhcpd v2.0 with dhcpd.conf as follows:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.5 192.168.0.50;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "test.net";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
default-lease-time 54000;
host testmachine {
hardware ethernet 00:00:c0:69:50:d8;
fixed-address 192.168.0.5;
filename "/tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
option option-129 "NIC=smc-ultra IO=0x260";
}
}
The option option-128 and so on are as per the ltsp_initrd_kit instructions,
but I don't believe that anything is being passed to the kernel at all. I've
also tried dhcpd v 3.0, but the syntax of dhcpd.conf is different with this
version, and errors are declared. I've tried modifying the conf file in
accordance with the dhcpd docs so that no errors are declared, but still get
the same message on boot. The dhcpd docs give no attention to diskless
booting, so it's hard to make sense of how they are supposed to work
together.
I've tried re-compiling the 2.4.9 kernel with no modules at all and no
ramdisk, everything compiled into the kernel -- which isn't much, ther are
only SMC ISA NIC, and video card in the machine, and mounting root fs via
NFS. I've followed the checklist in ltsp_install.pdf, but in this case,
it's:
Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount foot fs on 00:ff. Root-NFS: No NFS server
available giving up.
It says "NFS not working", but it LIES. NFS is working, as proven when the
workstation is booted from HD, it can mount server NFS shares no problem at
all.
Much obliged if anyone can suggest how I can proceed further with this.
Regards to all, Tim Johnston.
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