Robin, If you tell me what kind of NIC you plugged in, I should be able to tell you how to still use it, and override the onboard nic.
Another possibility is to boot a Knoppix CD on the machine, and run lspci to see what it finds. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Robin Bonin wrote: > I'm sure that is exactly what is going on. > > There is an onboard nic. Is there anyway that I can tell what driver > the LTSP kernel uses so that maybe I can find a rom for that driver? > > This is an older Compaq, and I can't find a model number on it so I > have a feeling it would be hard to lookup. > > Thanks > Robin > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:40:53 -0400 (EDT), Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robin, > > > > Is there any chance that this computer has another NIC built in ? > > > > Etherboot is searching for a specific nic, because the floppy has a > > certain driver on it. > > > > But, once the kernel starts running, it just looks for any nic it can > > find, and perhaps it's finding the onboard nic before your add-on nic. > > > > if that's the case, then you'll need to tell the kernel explicitly what > > to look for. You can do that with an option-128 and option-129 in the > > dhcpd.conf file. There's some information on that in an old LTSP-3 > > quick install guide. http://www.ltsp.org/instructions-3.0.html > > > > Way down at the bottom. This is the same thing we need to do when ISA > > nics are used. > > > > If you are still having problems, give us a bit more info, like what > > kind of NIC you have, and also you should be watching the > > /var/log/messages file, to see if the server is getting the 2nd DHCP > > request. > > > > Jim McQuillan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Robin Bonin wrote: > > > > > I have a compaq computer that I am trying to boot from floppy. > > > It is able to load the intial kernel, and download the LTSP kernel, > > > but then I get the following > > > > > > running DHCPD on port 67 > > > Error! DHCPD Failed > > > Kernel Panic > > > > > > I have used this exact same nic and floppydisk in another system with > > > no problems > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
