[K12OSN] Changes to dhcpd.conf for PCMCIA Booting

Ben Murphy benjamin.murph at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 16:42:00 UTC 2005


Jim,

That's kind of disappointing, but thank you. Will PCMCIA support be
included in later builds of LTSP?

Ben Murphy

On 7/19/05, Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> Unfortunately, at this point, the LTSP kernels don't support net-booting
> via PCMCIA network interfaces.  There's no PCMCIA support in the initrd,
> so the card can't even be detected.
> 
> I think it's still pretty rare to find a laptop that will actually
> supports PXE booting via PCMCIA.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Ben Murphy wrote:
> 
> > I'm working with laptops to try and create a mobile terminal services
> > network. I've gotten the laptops to boot using PXE to the point at
> > which the terminal receives the kernel from the server. At this point,
> > I get a kernel panic error that says the network device cannot be
> > detected and that changes need to be made to dhcpd.conf. I'm using
> > PCMCIA ethernet devices. What changes should be made? It mentions
> > option-129 and specifying a NIC, does that simply mean adding a driver
> > and "pointing" to its location?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ben Murphy
> >
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