Greetings everyone, I work for a company that is investigating deploying LTSP at each of our retail locations with Visara and Neoware thin-clients. We currently have approximately 1500 locations, with 5 - 20 clients per location.
I've downloaded and installed LTSP 4.2 update 4 on a Suse Professional 9.3 box, and when PXE booting a Neoware e90 (with a Via Rhine II nic), the initial DHCP portion works excellently, and we get connected to the TFTP server. Following this, it displays the following:
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Running /linuxrc
Mounting /proc
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
linuxrc: Installing via-rhine driver
modprobe via-rhine
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17.8-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e400, 00:e0:c5:57:71:0b, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 41e1.
Running dhcpcd on port 67
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
ERROR! dhcpcd failed!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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At this point it hangs indefinitely, and I can go no further.
I'd like to attempt to use the 2.6.16 kernel packages from LTSP, but I cannot find anywhere to download them. I've noticed other people recently asking a similar question regarding problems that were solved reverting from the 2.6.17 kernel to the 2.6.16.
I've compiled kernels before, but I don't think it would be a wise use of my time to download the source to 2.6.16 and attempt to re-create the already created kernel packages and modules provided by LTSP. If the kernel itself isn't available, I'd be willing to put forth the effort if a config file was available (The one that selects which options should be compiled into the kernel, which ones should be insertable as modules, and which are excluded).
Sorry to be extra wordy, but I just looked at my local package cache, and if the previous version of these two files could be made available, I'd be extremely happy. Maybe on a mirror that keeps old packages?
ltsp-kernel-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1-0-i386.tgz
ltsp-modules-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1-0-i386.tgz
Additionally, if anyone has direct experience with this problem, and can tell me that I'm barking up the wrong tree, then that would be valuable as well. I'm very excited about being involved in this project, and with the potential deployment of 10,000 clients, I would be very interested in convincing my bosses to allow my work to be contributed back to the community.
Jeremy Young
Programmer/Analyst
O'Reilly Auto Parts
(417) 862-2674 x1858
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