Put the following options in your host declaration section of /etc/dhcpd.conf:
>The 3c509 is an ISA network card, and it can't be autodetected. >So, you need to use option-129 to specify the kernel. it looks like you >tried that, but you didn't say whether you also had option-128 specified. > >If you want to use option-129, then you MUST also have option-128 >set to e4:45:74:68:00:00 >What you probably need is this: > > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; > option option-129 "NIC=3c509 IO=0x300"; > >Etherboot will ignore any and all options if you don't have option-128 set. > Also, >Actually the 3c509 is one of the few ISA NICs whose driver does not want >an IO option or the module will not load. So omit the IO clause. Tom At 05:01 AM 04/07/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Along the same lines: What do you have to put in the dhcpd.conf file to >specify a ISA NIC on the kernel command line? I tried, but nothing worked. >Can someone point me in the direction of an example? > >On Sunday 07 April 2002 15:16, you wrote: >> I have 1 Mandrake 8.1 Dell server runing with all the nesecery services up >> and runing. And I have 10 diskless AST 486 with 3c509 ISA NIC:s. The AST >> machines sems to boot fine until a point: " VFS: Cannot open root device >> "ram0" or 01:00 " Why is that? Maby it have somthing to do with my second >> question. >> >> In the documentation it says that " For ISA cards, the driver module MUST >> be specified on the kernel command line, along with any IRQ or adress >> parameters that are required." Where do I specife it. In which file? >> >> The system runs fine on a klient with a pci NIC. >> >> Regards Åke Hoff >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > >_____________________________________________________________________ >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 > _____________________________________________________________________ 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
