Hey Eugene: Can you look carefully at the error message which says "No DHCPOFFERS received"? Does it say 'lo' or 'ethX'? My feeling is that the network driver wasn't even loaded for your client nodes.
The kernel image which SIS use to boot up your client nodes for imaging does not contain the appropriate network drivers - I have an image which Frank compiled a while back which works for the bcm5700 series and if you need it, just leave me a message. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eugene > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query > > Hi > > I think I have a vague idea of the answer to this one: > I have manged to get all the way to network booting my client node. > After loading the kernel and drivers, during the install > process the client fails at "start network" with the > following message: > > "No DHCPOFFERS received" > > What I dont understand is how it can load the kernel and the > autoinstall across the network, but fails to configure the > network card for the latter part of the install. It seems > likely that the driver initialization of the onboard broadCom > BCM5700 is failing despite the fact that the driver modules > were included with the chosen kernel. > > Currently the following network drivers are being loaded, why > I dont know: > Intel Pro/1000 > pcnet32.c > ns83820.c > sk98lin (the dlink module I had to install to get the second > NIC on the master node working) > > Might it have anything to do with the fact that the BCM5700 > is installed as eth1 on the master node, while it is eth0 on > the client? Seems worth trying to swop them. > > Please tell me I dont have to recompile the kernel with the > BCM5700 driver. Also for some mysterious reason, the tg3 > driver does not work on the master node and I have to use the > bcm5700 for the broadcom NIC. > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free > Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO > of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to > system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
