Hello Peter, PC> After getting very confused by the LTSP website. After one of my colleges PC> decided we ought to use thin clients and then left. (I don't disagree with PC> the idea and actually think its a very good one). PC> We have LTSP running fine. But we can't seam to get out old ISA network cards PC> to boot correctly. etherboot seams to say that the D-Link 220 card should PC> work and says to use the ne driver. but when I try that nothing happens.
That's a more or less unspecific description. What /does/ happen? I would expect the following to happen when powering on the machine (booting from floppy with eb-5.0.8-ne.lzdsk or so) BIOS boot sequence Etherboot displaying start message Found card (ne io=0x320 irq=5) Getting DHCP information Got IP Address Loading TFTP file done Starting Linux Kernel ... lots of messages ... Loading network driver Running dhclient ... lots of more messages ... starting X Where does it hang? Tried another version of etherboot (e.g. an older one like 5.0.4 just to be sure)? FYI: There were several changes in Etherboot (to be read in the etherboot-users / etherboot-developers mailing list archives) that could break compatibility to too old ltsp-images. Try 5.0.4 which worked fine for me with "ne" on old FiberLine ISA nics. PC> I guess it needs a io=x irq=y handed to it (I still use an ISA card on my PC> Redhat box at home) but how do I hand this to the floppy? When etherboot runs correctly, yes. You have to enter it into the dhcpd.conf (option option-128 e4:f5:blahblahblah:00; RTFM; and option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=320", irq autodetected!?). PC> I know its nothing to do with the set up because we have 2 other thin clients PC> working happily (a Jammin 125 and a 486 with a 100Mbs Rtl8139 network card) With probably older etherboots, anyway. PC> The only problem with these is that the 486 can not be connected to a PC> 100Mbits segment as then the NFS fails I'm not sure why but bug it on a PC> 10Mbit hub and it works fine. Do you transfer the kernel files via NFS or use tftp there (then NFS for later mounting /opt/ltsp/i386)? In which way does it fail? Would be interesting to get that error out, as RTL8139 is a quite common hardware. PC> Any ideas? PC> Thanks in advance. PC> Peter Childs Best regards, Anselm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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