Mark, LTSP-4.2 definately won't work with the older kernel from LTSP-3
There's lots of changes in 4.2, including the requirement of a 2.6.x series kernel, to handle udev. I'd love to have a wireless-ready kernel for 4.2, but the kernels are so big now, they will no longer fit on a floppy. Newer machines can boot from usb sticks, but there's still an awful lot of older laptops that won't boot from usb. On top of that, almost all of the newer wireless cards need firmware that we aren't allowed to re-distribute. This makes things difficult, and there really isn't all that much interest in wireless ltsp. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark McSweeney wrote: > I apologize if this subject has been covered before but I could not find > it in a search of the archives. > > > I have previously been running K12LTSP 4.4.1 and been booting laptop > clients using a 3Com 3c574 PCMCIA card with no problems using the > floppy.img image from the wireless_ltsp-3.0.5 package. > > Recently I did a fresh install of K12LTSP 6.0 and when I attempt to boot > the client it appears to successfully acquire a DHCP address and the > when it tries to load the OS I get the following message: > > ------------------------------- > > Doing the pivot_root > Mounting the devfs filesystem > Running /sbin/init > > Enter runlevel: > > ------------------------------- > > and then hangs. > > If I understand correctly the K12LTSP 4.4.1 release used LTSP 4.0 and > K12LTSP 6.0 uses the 4.2 LTSP release. > > Does the newer kernel in 4.2 not support booting from the old > wireless_ltsp image or is the image maybe too outdated to boot the new > kernel? > > I am not sure where to go from here to solve this issue. If anybody > could give me pointers where to look it would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
