[K12OSN] problems during bootup

Jim Hays haysja at sages.us
Thu Jul 22 18:33:28 UTC 2004


Just unplugging the NIC will not work.  You need to disable the NIC in 
BIOS. 

Have you tried these booting to a floppy withe 3c905 driver?


Dale Harkness wrote:

> Hopefully someone out there can help me.
> We are running into an issue with client machines that have onboard 
> NIC cards.  the bios they have does not allow to disable the onboard 
> NIC card, so we simply unplug them.  we installed some Intel Pro 100 
> bootable network cards (PCI based) into the machines....they begin to 
> boot.....get to a point and error out saying that "no dhcpd-eth0.info 
> file" is available for the client.  all the machines are the same 
> model (Toshiba Equium 7100S) with the same PXE network card in them.  
> i know it is not my LTSP server because we hooked a COmpaq Deskpro 
> with the same model NIC to it and it worked fine.  I have a feeling it 
> is the onboard NIC that is causing a problem, even though it is 
> unplugged.  i can also see during the startup that it is trying to 
> install the wrong NIC driver for the Intel, it is actually installing 
> for the 3Com onboard card (3c905 driver)  Help me if anyone 
> can.....thanks in advance.
>
> dale
>
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