Mihalis, Pop the card out and look at it. The MAC address should be printed right on the card.
Also, take a look at /var/log/messages. You should see a message saying 'no free leases'. In that message is also the MAC address that is trying to get an IP address. Jim McQuillan. On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, mihalis veletas wrote: > I'm trying to hook up an LTE5280 Compaq laptop to my > SuSE9.0 PC via LTSP. The LTE5280 has no hard drive, > and no CDRom. I would like to eventually establish > the LTSP connection over a wireless LAN. In > preparation for this, I have obtained a 3CXFE57BT > PCMCIA card (wired), which is on the 'supported' list > of the wireless LTSP project by James McQuillan. > > However, the 3CXF... is not recognized by the wireless > LTSP boot disk. Error message is 'looking for dhcp' > something - I this simiplly means that my DHCP server > does not have an MAC address for the PCMCIA card (have > only managed to get LTSP working with static IP's - I > am a hobyist, so efficiencies be damned). My goal for > now is to find the MAC address of the card. > > I tried booting off a floppy (tomsrtbt), but the > 3CXF... is still not recognized, so, no MAC there. > Dont' have a HD, don't have a CD-ROM. > > Anyone got any ideas of what to do, or where to go > look for a solution? > > Cheers > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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
