Toomas Tamm wrote: > I think I have observed similar behaviour (boot hangs after kernel is > loaded and the second DHCP handshake is in progress or just completed) > intermettently on various hosts, with various network cards. Some cards > seem to be more suspectible to this than others, and some are probably > problem-free.
Good to be not alone :) > All this with the FAI which comes with Debian etch (3.1.8) and a kernel > we compiled locally (2.6.18). We use Etch on the Server and the last Etch packages of FAI, 3.2.8, and tried Standard Debian Kernels *2.6.18-6-486, 2.6.18-6-686 and the 2.6.24 from Etch and a half. The Boradcom NIC on the Server did only start to get into service with etch and a half kernel - the client is slightly different and works fine with 2.6.18-6-686. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de | http://lazyb0y.blogspot.com/