Hallo Martin,

> we have some very cheap (3 Euro)
> Network-Cards with an VIA VT6105 chip.

> The card is supported by Linux & Etherboot

Also by the kernel on the initrd? (e.g. if it uses the via-rhine
driver, and that's inside the initrd kernel...)

> but the LTSP-Kernel does not know it (it's PCI Vendor ID)
> can I modify the init-ramdisk which is glued to the kernel
> without compiling the kernel from source ?

Get the initrd kit and add the nic id to /etc/niclist inside the kit:
 tar -xvzf ltsp_initrd_kit.tgz
 cd ltsp_initrd_kit
 gunzip initrd-2.4.19-ltsp-1.gz
 mkdir a
 mount -o loop initrd-2.4.19-ltsp-1 a    (as root)
 vi a/etc/niclist
 umount a
 gzip initrd-2.4.19-ltsp-1
 #mknbi with the files bzImage.... as kernel and
 initrd-2.4.19-ltsp-1.gz as initrd - params not at hand


Perhaps specifying "NIC=via-rhine" (or appropriate) in the option-129
of your dhcpd.conf (RTFM for details) would do the trick as well.

Gru�,
 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
 Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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