I'm working on setting up a netbooting system to automatically clone off nodes for a Beowulf cluster by popping in a disk, booting from a server (the cluster head node), copying files from a readonly NFS share, and so forth. I've gotten a boot disk that works with some NICs, but many of the systems we will be using use a card with a recent SMC chipset (lspci identifies it as an 83C170QF rev 06). The Linux epic100 driver works fine for the card in question, but the epic100 driver from the netboot codebase does not. If I try to access the network, I get errors like:
OOPS, Something wrong with transmitter. status=8000 and eth_transmit: Unable to transmit. status=8000. Resetting... But it never resets, just sits in this loop. Ctrl-C once or twice will get it to stop, but it never succeeds in netbooting, or even getting an address via DHCP (works on another system with a 3Com card). So, what other useful info can I provide? Does anyone know what's going on? Is there maybe a newer driver in the netboot codebase? I'm open to suggestions. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub