Re: [K12OSN] Urgent - Help Needed

[Bob Karschnia <bobk mn rr com>]

The terminals didn't boot for the simple reason that the wrong nic drivers 
were used for the clients.  The nics were a netgear fa311, so I naturally 
used the netgear fa311 driver from rom-o-matic.  This didn't work.  After 
lots of conversation, it was determined that the dp83815 driver contained the 
right chip driver from National.  Rom-o-matic could be easier to use in this 
regard.  Once straightened out .. the out the box configuration pretty much 
worked.

Then there was a problem with one of the terminals using the default video 
driver.  Again, lots more help from the guys at IRC.  They help me get the 
right video drivers and configure both the dhcpd.conf and lts.conf to make 
this work.  I learned a lot and feel much more confident to handle matters 
like this on my own.

Again IRC is a fantastic tool!!!!


On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:31 am, Jack wrote:
> Bob,
>  Would you mind sharing what you did to get the terminals to finally
> boot?
>
> Jack
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:08, Bob Karschnia wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone (especially the guys on IRC), I got the lab up and
> > running!!!!
> >
> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:38 pm, Bob Karschnia wrote:
> > > I brought my server from home and installed it in a lab for a test at
> > > the local school.  Booted up 12 computers under IceWM and and the
> > > school was excited.
> > >
> > > They have decided to set up a small lab to do some teacher evaluation. 
> > > The board is meeting on Tues (18th) and I like to be able to report a
> > > success by then, hence the urgency.
> > >
> > > Detalis of the problem:
> > > 	Standard config ... nothing unusual, server, 2 nics in server, hub,
> > > and only 4 computers (starting small).
> > > 	Server is up and running.
> > > 	Clients will not boot from floopies
> > > 	Hangs up at "Searching for server (DHCP) ......."
> > > 	Same problems using multiple NICs on the various computers
> > > 	Ran all trouble shooting tests on LTSP web page and everything looks
> > > ok
> > >
> > > Did two addtional tests
> > > 	Test DHCP by booting the clinets under windows ... addresses supplied
> > > to windows terminals successfully - DHCP appears to be running.
> > > 	Rebooted DHCP to get a clean start
> > > 		Verified log and no requests come across on floppy boot
> > > 		Remove floppy and boot under windows, request shows up in log
> > >
> > >
> > > I know it is in the clients but I have no idea what to do ... HELP!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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