Late Sunday night, I put a new LTSP kernel package on the LTSP download page. This was labeled ltsp_kernel_3.0.2. It had one small problem tho, the initrd was missing the hostname command. This caused the workstation to be unable to get the correct entries from the lts.conf file.
So, late last night, I released ltsp_kernel_3.0.3, which does have the hostname command. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused people who got the bad package. According to the Sourceforge stats, it was only 6 people. Now, for the good news: 1) The new kernel package contains some fixes to the /linuxrc script that will allow any IO or IRQ options to always be passed to the NIC module. Previously, only a few select NIC modules would get the information. 2) I changed the /linuxrc script to use modprobe instead of insmod. This causes it to automatically figure out if the 8390.o module is required. Previously, it was only loaded for a few select NIC modules. 3) WIRELESS !!! Yes, that's right, we now support wireless LTSP cards. Actually, not with this kernel pkg, but with the wireless-ltsp package that is also available for download. I had to build a new kernel for PCMCIA support, so I decided it was a good time to release the new standard kernel as well. 4) A new ltsp_initrd_kit is also available, which contains the compiled kernels and the initrd images so you can piece them together as you wish, for PXE booting or other booting methods. And, I've included the NFS-swap patch and the LPP patch. As a side benefit to adding support for wireless cards, we also now have support for any PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet cards (wired) as well. When I say 'any', I mean if it is supported by the pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 package in Linux. But, keep in mind, we are not loading the kernel via the network. Etherboot doesn't (yet) support pcmcia cards. So, you need to load the kernel locally. That is, from floppy disk, hard disk or flash disk. Included in the wireless-ltsp package is a floppy image that can be dd'ed directly to a floppy. If you want to know how to put the kernel and initrd on a flash disk, please contact me, either via email or on the #ltsp IRC channel. Also, the kernel version is still 2.4.9. The reason for that is that is the only version for which there is a NFS-Swap patch and the LPP patch. As soon as patches for the 2.4.18 kernels become available, I'll work on updating to that version. So, the new packages are: ltsp_kernel-3.0.2-0.i386.rpm ltsp_kernel-3.0.2.i386.tgz ltsp_initrd_kit-3.0.3.i386.tgz wireless_ltsp-3.0.2-i386.tgz So, have fun with the new stuff. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net