Announcing a new kernel for LTSP based on the recently
released 2.4.21 Linux kernel.
Christoph Thiel arranged with Claus-Justus Heine to update the
NFS-Swap patch for 2.4.21, which is what I was waiting on
to build the new LTSP kernel.
The new kernel includes new NIC drivers, such as:
e100 Alternate driver for eepro100 cards
e1000 Driver for Intel Gigabit cards
acenic Driver for Alteon AceNIC Gigabit card
dl2k D-Link DL2000 driver
hamachi Driver for Hamachi based cards
dp83820 Driver for NatSemi 10/100/1000 cards
sundance For sundance cards
typhoon Driver for 3Com Typhoon cards
Also, an alternate port for DHCP can be specified on
the kernel command line. The new option is 'DPORT'.
For instance, if you wanted to run DHCP on a port other
than the standard 67/68, for example, 1067/1068, you could
specify it with the following options in dhcpd.conf:
option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
option option-129 "DPORT=1067";
You would also need a custom compiled Etherboot that sends
the initial dhcp request out on port 1067, and you would
need to configure your dhcpd to listen/respond on 1067/1068.
1067 and 1068 are just examples of alternate ports. You could
use any unused port that is appropriate for your environment.
If you are loading modules to access ide devices on the
LTSP workstation, there is a problem with compiling ide-probe-mod
and ide-mod as modules. If you attempt to compile them as
modules, it will result in several undefined references when
depmod is run. So, I had to specify those two modules to be
compiled into the kernel, rather than modules. This shouldn't
cause any real problems, you'll just have to adjust your lts.conf
file to NOT load those modules, as they are now built-in.
Also, this kernel is almost 200k larger than the 2.4.19 kernel,
this causes a problem with the ltsp_wireless package. It's too
large to fit on a floppy. So, i've not released a new
ltsp_wireless package yet. I'll need to work on reducing the
size of the kernel+initrd.
If you are interested in trying the new kernel, go to
<a href="http://www.ltsp.org/instructions-3.0.html>here</a>
and download it and give it a whirl.
Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
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