Re: [K12OSN] Newb Looking for Guidance

[Bert Rolston <bert rolston clear net nz>]

Hi Jamie,

What model are the Compaq machines.

>From past experience, you had to modify the boot-rom image to force PCI
to work. Older machines didn't implement the, at that stage new, PCI
standards correctly.

I remember having difficulties disabling the on board NIC's on those
early machines. What happens is the Intel starts the process then the
old AMD takes over. 

The machine sits and waits because the Intel is transmitting, but the
terminal kernel is expecting to receive on the old AMD Nic. I saw this
happen, and that's when I stumbled on to the PCI trick for the boot rom
image.


Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 19:10, Jamie Richard wrote:
> I have a 1.3ghz Duron running K12LTSP version of redhat that I downloaded off the website last night.  I have 2 Compaq 166mhz Clients with Intel Etherexpress 10/100 cards using bootable floppies to emulate the rom. The clients boots from the floppy and sits at "Searching for DHCP Server...", I look at tail -f /var/log/messages and I see the workstation requesting an IP and the server sending a reply giving it the correct IP for its mac address.  But the Clients still sit there.  What can I do?
> 
> Btw, I reconfigured my eth0 and dhcp.d (along with dns) to work with my network, this meant making the internal network 192.168.10.xxx instead of 192.168.0.xxx, DHCPD and others appear to work fine with the change.
> 
> -Jamie