Hi Shan,
I'm not totaly shure, about the 845GLVA, but the 845GV chipset uses the
braodcom nic, wich needs the b44 kernel-driver. This driver is in kernel
2.4.23 only as experimental code available. So, it could be that you need to
build your own kernel, to get this solved.
good luck
nelius
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 16:12, Shanmugasundaram Doraisamy wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I am trying to setup a new node on an existing ltsp server. The
> new node has an original Intel D845GLVA mother board with onboard
> ethernet card. The following is the relevant part of my dhcpd.conf:
>
> host ckc{ # CKC MACHINE # PXE Floppy Drive
> hardware ethernet 00:07:E9:42:37:6E;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.88;
> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1";
> option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; # This is _no_
> MAC-address!
> option option-129 "NIC=eepro100";
> if (substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient")
> {
> filename "/lts/eb-5.2.2-82562et.zpxe";
>
> }else if (substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
> "Etherboot")
> {
> option vendor-encapsulated-options
> 3c:09:45:74:68:65:72:62:6f:6f:74:ff;
> }
> }
>
> When I switch on the node I get the following error:
>
> Could not automatically detect the network card.
> PCI cards should be detected automatically.
> ISA cards cannot be detected, so they require
> the nic driver to be specified in a 'NIC=' patamenter
> to be passed on the kernel command line,
> usually specified in option-129, in the
> /etc/dhcpd.conf file. See the LTSP docs for more info.
>
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Please let me know what I should do to get this node to work.
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Shan.
>
>
>
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