on Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:37:54PM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote: > 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
Phil, Isn't what you need on your local hard disc is a normal but minimal linux with X (I would use a debian install) & then you run your X desktop from the server. (XDM-Xterm.html HOWTO) There are solutions out there for a full ltsp via PCMCIA remote which are related to wi-fi but last time I looked they were too clever for me. I am writing this on a dell latitude XPi p133 machine running as an LTSP terminal with no hard disc but it boots via a docking station with a "traditional" etherlink 3c509 in. Great in the lounge, no hard disc, fan never comes on, absolutely silent. If your Dell is one of this family I have a spare docking station we could discuss (as you appear to be in the uk) Steve ------------------------------------------------------- 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
