According to the PXE boot sequence, the NIC on the HP Pavillion I am
currently trying to use as a client is defined as:
Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.1.0.9 (08/12/11)
Windows recognizes it* as Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (NDIS 6.20) and has no problem using it.
During my troubleshooting attempts, I have installed (separate attempts)
both 'ath9k' and 'alx' and updated my
/opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions placing reference
to whichever driver in the 'net)' section, to no avail.
I typically run ltsp-update-sshkeys and ltsp-update-image and restart both
DHCP and TFTP after any change of any kind.
*Since the client currently has Windows 7 Pro installed on the HDD, I just
booted it into that OS to check whether the NIC functions. It would baffle
me to learn that any flavor of Linux does not recognize that card, or know
which drivers to load for it, but maybe I'm just baffled, anyway. I
disabled the HDD and left only network booting available for this.
I am kind of confused in that I had thought that LTSP was good for all of
those old systems that could no longer handle modern operating systems
because of scarce resources. But Ed/Ubuntu 12.04 hasn't worked with any of
the systems I have tried to use, new or old.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote:
> > There is no problem for the clients to get an IP address from the DHCP
> server,
> > and they all log in via TFTP.
> ...
> > No interfaces found! Aborting...
> ...
> > ipconfig: no devices to configure
> > /scripts/local-top/nbd: .: line 34: can't open '/tmp/net-*.conf'
> ...
> > HOWEVER ... did not the client connect and get an address from DHCP and
> then,
> > further, successfully log in through TFTP?
> >
> > It did ... so why the failure following the TFTP exchange? What's it
> looking
> > for?
>
> It *is* confusing, but the initial DHCP request is using the PXE network
> stack
> built into the card, *before* you load an operating system.
>
> The PXE environment then downloads and executes a bootloader, which then
> downloads the linux kernel and initramfs using the PXE network stack.
>
> But linux needs it's own network card drivers (and/or firmware) in the
> initramfs environment in order to establish a network connection to the
> server
> to get the full operating system up and running...
>
> Are you able to boot the thin clients with live media using a USB stick
> and get
> networking to work? Do you know what model network cards you're using?
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
>
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