Thanks for the information!
I tried to set different irqs, but it doesnt work, btw etherboot finds the
network card! but it doesnt send anything out of it (while searching for
dhcp)
again: cables are checked, nic is ok....
kind regards,
Clemens
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Geert Stappers wrote:
> At 23:43 +0200 9/26/01, Clemens Hupka wrote:
> >Hi folks!
> >
> >I installed LTSP v2.08 (not for the first time, i have already two systems
> >running for about 1 year!)
> >
> >I know this is more an etherboot than a ltsp-problem, but the 2 projects
> >are so close one to each other, that maybe someone of you has a clue...
> >
> >This time i got some "old" european IBM 790 computers (aka P166 with
> >32Megs of RAM, a Trio64V+...) They also have a PCI-Bus, so i got a
> >pci ovislink card (works very fine in other systems) with rtl8139 on it
> >and tried to boot with some of my bootdisks (etherboot 4.8.x, 5.0.2 and
> >5.03 from rom-o-matic that work on the other system!!!!!).... they
> >get until looking for DHCP and stop then....
>
>
> This reminds me on a problem I had once.
>
> Etherbootfloppy for card whatever the worked fine on one computer.
> Same floppy on other computer with also a whatever NIC refused to work.
>
> The working NIC had IRQ 10, the failing NIC had IRQ 9 configured.
> Etherboot assumed/excepted only IRQ 10.
>
>
> Check the IRQ on the 8139 with what Etherboot expects....
>
> >
> >The routes on the server are OK. I made a tcpdump on the server to get any
> >information from the client - none.... i also tried to set the client in
> >the other (working) ltsp network, but nothing happens... So I installed
> >debian on the machine to see if the NIC works, and everything works
> >there...
> >
> >Did I miss something?
> >
> >BTW... i tried to connect a working client on the new server an got a
> >dhcp-request in the log files, so the server-side seems to be ok!
> >
> >Thanks for any information about this subject....
> >
> >Clemens
> >Vienna/Austria
> >
>
>
> Kind Regards, Geert Stappers
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