[K12OSN] Broadcom 440x wierd problem

[jconlon1 at elp.rr.com]

I have an Inspiron 6000 laptop running dual boot.  The NIC in the laptop
is a Broadcom 440x 10/100.   In the Linux side I am running K12LTSP
4.4.1.  When I boot to the linus\x side as a stand alone the kernel
finds the NIC and activates it no problem.

HOWEVER

There are times when I need to or would like to run the inspiron as a
thin client.  The server is also running K12ltsp 4.4.1.  It has an AMD
Athalon processor and 1.5 Gig of RAM.  When I activate the PXE boot in
the laptop the server starts to load up the terminal stuff and then I
get the following:

Running /linuxrc
Mounting /proc

ERROR! Could not automatically detect the network card.
	PCI cards should be detected automatically.
	ISA cards cannot be detected, so they require the nic driver to be
specified in a ‘NIC=’ parameter to be passed on the kernel command line,
usually specified in option-129. in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file. See the
LTSP docs for more info.

Kernal panic: Attempted to kill init!


When this happens everything in the Inspiron stops and the NUMLOCK and
CAPSLOCK lights blink.  I have to turn the Inspiron off and back on to
clear this and allow it to boot as a stand alone.

Any suggestions or help on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Pat