Tom, Looks like maybe you have the wrong Etherboot driver for your network card.
Can you tell us more about the network card in the client ? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5 Dec 2002, tom wrote: > Some of these questions might have been asked before, but I wasn't able > to find them after searching for a couple of days. Any help would be > greatly appreciated! > > Hi. I'm trying to set up a "mini" LTSP network in my home because: > > a) it's cool > and... > b) I want to get some experience with this so I can possibly set up a > system like this in the private school where my mother-in-law works. > > So, I have my server (Athlon 1.4, 256 MB RAM) and my client (K6200, 32 > MB RAM). They're connected via ethernet cards and a crossover cable. > > >From the software side, I used the Mandrake 8.2 tutorial to set up my > system. Everything seems to be running correctly from that perspective > and my client and server are connected, so I put in my boot floppy and > tried to fire this puppy up. > > Here's (more or less) what I get on my client. The elipses (...) > represent a seemingly unimportant string of text: > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > (blah blah blah) > ... > Probing...[NATSEMI] > natsemi_probe: MAC addre FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF at ioaddr 0xF800 > ... > Searching for server(DHCP)... > natsemi_transmit: TX Timeout! Tx status 8000024E > natsemi_transmit: Transmit Error, Tx status 8000024E > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Here are a few newbie questions: > 1. Why is my mac address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF? > 2. If DHCP is running and my computers are connected, then why can't my > client "find" my server? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Tom Purl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
