The ethernet MAC adress is often written on the card. I thinkt that there's also
a few utilities that can give you the MAC adress f.x. ifconfig on the host.

Tarjei

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> 
> Glenn,
> 
> You need to include a 'filename' parameter in the
> dhcpd.conf file. The workstation doesn't know that it
> is supposed to download /lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-6
> 
> Take a look at http://www.LTSP.org/instructions-3.0.html
> for more info on what your dhcpd.conf file should
> look like.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Glenn Morse wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to those of you who helped me get my DHCP server working, I did
> > indeed find the dumb errors and get it working! (I think :) So, I
> > plugged my new (heh) diskless workstation into the network, popped the
> > etherboot diskette into the drive, fired it up, and this is what I got
> > (on the workstation).
> >
> > (bunch of stuff basically saying that it did indeed find my network
> > card)
> > Searching for server (DHCP)
> > ..Me:192.168.1.25  Server:192.168.1.5  Gateway:192.168.1.5
> > Loading 192.168.1.5:/tftpboot/kernel .TFTP Error 1 (File not found)
> > Unable to load file.
> > <sleep>
> > <abort>
> > (rinse, wash, repeat)
> >
> > So, I went and looked at the path it is looking for a kernel, of course
> > there is no file there, I tried copying the kernels from /tftpboot/lts
> > to /tftpboot/kernel just for kicks, I am not sure why it is getting this
> > error. Plus, why is it looking there for a kernel instead of
> > /tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-lpp-6? I apologize if this is another dumb
> > mistake, but any assistance would be greatly appreciated, both by me and
> > the people around me! :)
> >
> > One other dumb question, what is an easy way to determine the mac
> > address of an Ethernet card? I keep seeing everyone with cool dhcpd.conf
> > files that assigns ip's by mac address, but I have no idea how to
> > discover what mine are.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Glenn
> >
> >
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