Hi, PXE + Etherboot works just fine now - thanks to your advice. Guess you're aware of it already but - it's only cvs on etherboot 5.0 that do work - 5.1 gives the same error.
The device ID part was my misunderstanding. Thanks a lot! regards, Sture [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >So - this is what I see: The client network card does PXE, does tftp and=20 > >gets the 3c905c-tpo.lzpxe image, unloads PXE, exec the .lzpxe, discovers=20 > >the network card and tries to communicate DHCP-ways. But - the MAC has=20 > >changed to some fake one (DHCP server sees the request, but is not to=20 > >respond to the client card) Also - from what I see on the client - after=20 > >.lzpxe is loaded it discovers the card as having id 0x9400, this differs=20 > >from what 3c905c-txm should have (0x9200 according to etherboot's 'NIC')=20 > > The wrong MAC address is easy to explain. There's a bug in the 3c90x.c > driver in which it's getting the MAC address from the wrong location in > the EEPROM. Older cards had the same MAC address in both the wrong and > the right locations so it still worked. Newer cards don't. The fixed > driver is not in any release yet as the fix came in after 5.0.6 was > released, but you can get it from the CVS archive at the Etherboot web > site. > > Don't know if the wrong device ID is a related bug. > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- Sture Lygren Driftsansvarlig / System Administrator Andøya Rakettskytefelt AS http://www.rocketrange.no/ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _____________________________________________________________________ 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
