[K12OSN] BUILT-IN NIC - solved (sort of)

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Fri May 25 15:37:40 UTC 2007


if other machines are pxe boot'n then it's not your server...

I had some machines that didn't play well even though bios supported pxe 
booting...they on-board nics apparently did not...throwing in a 
pxe-bootable nic and disabling the onboard nic solved the problem.

--Huck

Ray Garza wrote:
> On Thursday 24 May 2007 05:03:23 pm James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:01 -0500, Ray Garza wrote:
>>> 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 :)
>>>
>>> Ray
>> That sounds like the issue is on the server side. Check that dhcpd is
>> running and the firewall allows incoming connections (for the moment,
>> turn off the firewall).
> 
> I could be wrong but other PC's are connecting to the same server and I 
> already have the firewall and SELinux turned off.
> 
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