Hi THat's great news! What about Pxe boot? Is there a chance of having problems with r8169 using pxe?
regards Nataraj On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Patrick Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 04:12, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > >> The only problem with 4.2 is that kernel is 2.4 without the drivers >> for newer NICs like Realtek 8169. >> > > I am still using 4.2, because my only server is running SLES10. Some > time ago I ran ltspadmin and updated to the 2.6.20.9-ltsp-1 kernel > which I think is the latest available. I have just set up a client with > the D-Link DGE 528T NIC, which uses the Realtek 8169 driver (r8169) and > it is working perfectly. > > I used the r8169:dlink Etherboot ROM image from Rom-o-matic for the boot > floppy and inserted the following in my dhcpd.conf file: > > host office6 { > hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; # (This is the mac of the NIC) > fixed-address 192.168.0.10; > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; # NOT a mac address > option option-129 "NIC=r8169 > MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048"; > } > > -- > Patrick Sherlock > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
