I have a working LTSP setup with diskless clients and a SuSE 9.0 server. I thought I'd try to spice up my old Dell laptop (which runs SuSE 9 very slowly) by taking advantage of the LTSP setup.
The laptop already has grub installed as a boot loader, so I copied the ltsp kernel and initrd from the tftp root directory on the server to the laptop and configured grub to boot with that kernel and initrd, with the same nfs root directory as configured in dhcp.conf for my normal clients. The Dell (an Inspiron 3000) has a Sitecom pcmcia NIC with a realtek 8139 controller. When I boot the laptop, it initially looks like it's going to work, but then prints out a message to the effect that it can't automatically detect the network card, and then dies with a kernel panic because it can't mount the root. If I pass in either of the 8139 kernel modules as kernel options, they fail to load, and again the laptop dies with a no root panic. Is there something silly I'm doing here, or a simple step I can take to get the network card fired up. If successful, this is a great way of breathing new life into tired old laptops! Thanks. -- Phil Driscoll ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
