Am 14 Oct 2002, um 9:58 Uhr schrieb Romain Surleau: > > Hello Romain, > > I think I have a problem which might possibly similar to yours. > > My laptop is running with SuSE 7.3 and the connection to my server is via > > 3Com Ethernet PCMCIA Card (3C562d) is no problem. But when I try to use a > > ltsp boot floppy there is no dhcp-request coming to the server, but the > > network interface is correctly found as 3C589. So I think this is ok, but I > > don´t know why there is no request coming to the server. > > In my case, the switch is slow to detect : it has a orange led when it > detects a link, and the led becomes green when autoconfiguration is > completed ; but the dhcp request has failed meantime. It deosn't fail > with the standard workstations : they do wait for the swith ....
Maybe you can change the configuration of your switch to do a fast recognition of the link. On a Cisco switch this could be f.e.: "spanning-tree portfast" in the interface-configuration. hth. -Andreas. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
