It sounds like Etherboot is having trouble transmitting packets from
your client's NIC.  Are you having trouble with any other workstations
that boot with Etherboot?  Have you tried a different NIC in the same
workstation?

- Jake



On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:14:18PM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> When trying to boot from a ROM-image floppy, I get as far as "Searching for 
> server (DHCP) and then dots start printing below very slowly.
> 
> I've successfully used a dhcp client to get an ip address for this 
> workstation, so I know the network card, switch, cables are all good.  I 
> would assume the dhcp server setup is fine.
> 
> I'm watching the eth0 port on the server, and i don't see any packets coming 
> from the workstation when i use the rom disk.
> 
> i've tried a couple different disks for the netgear fa310tx card: the tulip 
> one and the 82c168 one.  neither have worked.
> 
> i've checked the /var/log/messages file and i don't see anything logged when 
> the client work station starts up.
> 
> any ideas on what could be wrong? or how to debug it further?
> 
> thanks for you help!
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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