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Ray Garza wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday 24 May 2007 04:01:25 pm Ray Garza wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday 24 May 2007 11:29:26 am Ray Garza wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have some PC's that have a built in NIC w/option to boot from network.
I try using it but it cannot get the info from the DHCP Server. If I boot
from floppy it works fine.
The built-in nic is a VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.14 and it us
using Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 to boot from.
You think I may have to upgrade the system BIOS? I'm not even sure if
there is an upgrade. I'll have to look. Is there anything I can do on the
server side to help it along?
I've looked at the log files but didn't see anything about this pc trying
to connect.
I've checked the archives and people have had success with this card but
no details were provided.
Thanks,
Ray Garza
Coordinator of Computer Services
Speer Memorial Library
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<pre wrap="">I updated the BIOS to the MB and it still doesn't work. Errors with No DHCP
reply so I gave up and booted from floppy. Problem solved :)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Ok looking over my original email I realized I forgot one teeny-weeny fact, I
piggybacking on an existing network with another box (IPCop).
I have an existing network of about 200 PC's running through IPCop (static
IP's). Out of those 200 PC's I needed to convert 16 PC's over to k12ltsp
(using the same physical network). I've read others were doing it so I
figured it would work too as long as I turned off DHCP services on the IPCop
box.
IPCop: DHCP services: OFF - network: 192.168.0.0/24
K12ltsp: DHCP Services: ON - network: 192,168.1.0/24.
Both on the same physical network.
For the most part the setup is working but here is what I have observed:
I have a few PC's that have the built-in nic as described before. The one I
had trouble with will not boot from the NIC using the BIOS configuration. The
other PC's will boot from the NIC via BIOS configurations. So, I'm thinking
that it was just a single PC issue.
The rest of the PC's boot from the floppy because they have no buil-in nic and
we don't have the bootproms installed.
Booting from the floppy I get several (about 4) "No IP found" errors then it
kicks in and loads up. I thought that it might be from heavy network load but
I looked at it this morning under light traffic and still got the same "NO IP
Found" errors. It looks like I get 3-5 of those errors then it kicks in and
boots up.
I really don't see it as a major problem right now. Even under heavy network
load the k12 clients seem to work fine. Well, at least they are able to boot
up and people can log on and surf the web.
I'll have to wait and see later on when the k12 pc's get more useage. Anyone
see anything that could account for the "NO IP Found" errors? I have a
Netgear gigabit and CISCO 3550 switch between the the k12 server and the
PC's. I wonder if they could be causing the errors.
Oh well, sorry for the omission of some vital information. Just an oversite.
Ray
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Hmm...you've turned off the IPCop's DHCP server, but it does sound like
there's something else on the network that's at least attempting to
reply. Could there possibly be something else trying to respond to the
PXE-booting request but not, for some reason, configured to actually
hand out an IP address? The only thing that comes to mind here is a
broken DHCP server of some sort on that network segment.<br>
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--TP<br>
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