Atish-
I think I may have seen something similar on the same cards before... I had the same thoughts you did about replacing the initrd.gz and I tried different dhcp clients and such... it didn't work.
I ended up replacing the kernel with a newer one that had a better driver for the 3com card and everything worked smoothly. It was a very tough problem because the driver appeared to be working (at least one direction), so I didn't suspect it.
Now... if I just had the link to the site. When I was having trouble, it was actually Sean Dague that gave me the link to find the extra kernels available for SIS (user contributed, I think). Maybe one of the SIS folks can chime in here? Otherwise, I'll keep searching.
Jeremy
At 06:55 PM 6/19/2002 -0400, Atish Chowdhury wrote:
Hi all,
I was trying oscar1.21rh72 atop RedHat 7.2. Things
went well, till I needed my client to be booted.
It could boot the kernel/initrd.gz all right (via PXE/ boot floppy)
but dchlient failed to get any response back from the
server (It could send the DHCPREQUESTS).
The DHCP server was running fine, though. (I could use
a different machine and a different dhcp client to get appropriate
responses) I saw a previous posting on the mailing list, mentioning
the same problem. I did make sure (as above) that the server
is configured fine.
My client node is a dual Athlon on a Tyan Thunder K7, using
3COM's 3c59x for it's network interface. Does it pose any compatibility problem with the boot kernel ? ( I would rather like to believe that I am missing something :))
Has anyone come across this problem/know the solution ?
Would really love to have some suggestions.
On a related note, if I replace the supplied "initrd.gz" and "kernel" with custom ram disks (having some other working dhcp clients) and kernel, can I simply include the nodename.sh script in the ramdisk and pass control to it? Is it an acceptable workaround or does that script have dependencies on the ramdisk/kernel supplied with the distribution?
'Appreciate some advice on this.
-thanks in advance,
Atish
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