Thanks John, I may have my terms wrong. I set the bios on the Neoware to enable the bootrom. It starts writing to the black screen just like my other non-Neoware PCs that work. It sends a dhcp request. THe server gives an IP, then the server does three tries of DHCPDISCOVER/OFFER with no success. THe client then shows dhcpcd failed, kernel panic, etc.
>I may be wrong, but the mention of "PCI" leads me to suspect that the PCI LAN >boot means that it will use a bootrom on the PCI LAN NIC. Is there such a ROM >on your hardware? If not, then that would be consistant with your surmise >that there is no NIC driver, but unfortunately that would mean you won't be >booting diskless until a bootrom in installed. Since it is reporting a dhcp >failure, I think that this scenario is likely. If the failure came *after* it >had an IP address, then it might be a PXE vs. Etherboot issue. On Friday 06 October 2006 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Sorry if this is a duplicate, I was haveing "suspicious header" problems. >> >> Hi, thanks to those who helped me realize my Neoware client was not >> really functioning as an LTSP client. I now have it set to do PCI LAN >> boot, but I am getting the "dhcpcd failed - kernel panic message at >> boot. I have read in the archives about this usually being where there >> is no driver found for the LAN card. It is a fairly new Neoware e140. >> I have regular PC LTSP clients workng fine from the same server. >> >> There are no media drives on this unit, so alternate booting is not a >> possibilty. I am using 4.2u2. I see 4.2u3 upgraded the kernel, perhaps >> that added a LAN driver? Do lan driver problems get fixed by using >> newer kernels or do you have to add the actual driver you need to >> kernel. If anyone has "the worlds biggest LTSP kernel" that has all >> drivers, please send it to me. Can I just get the upgraded 4.2u3 kernel >> file and put it in my 4.2u2 system or does that not work? Where would I >> get the new kernel file? I installed from iso onto SLED 10, but I don't >> see a 4.2u3 or 4 iso, is one available? >> >> Thanks for any ideas, >> fred >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
