I have figured out where the problem is and what is going wrong.
The PXE kernel does indeed lack support for the BCM5700 range of NICs
Unfortunately the kernel you sent me does not work either (It needs the BCM5700 driver, the tg3 driver doesnt seem to be sufficient). I found another kernel from Jeremy Enos by searching the list that does support my NIC, unfortunately something else goes wrong when his ramdisk image is mounted and I end up with a kernel panic similar to the one reported here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03077.html
I'm thinking I am going to have to compile my own kernel with BCM5700 support in, or at least do something about the initrd.img.
Any advice?
Thanks
Eugene
Bernard Li wrote:
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
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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
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