[GLLUG] LTSP 5 and Optiplex GX1

Thomas Driscoll tad001 at sunn.net
Sun Jan 24 23:03:38 EST 2010


When I was dealing with some pxe system booting I ran into module issues in the kernel. Is your drivers for your nic a module or built into the kernel??




On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:13:05PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> I'm trying to move to LTSP 5 on my Gentoo system.  I have the client
> system built, the TFTP and DHCP stuff working to give up the necessary
> files, but the terminal hits a kernel panic when it tries to mount /
> over NFS.  It says that there's no network available.
> 
> I know the connection is good, because it pulled the kernel and stuff.
> It looks like it picks the tg3 NIC driver to use for networking, but the
> system uses the 3C950 chipset and would need the 3C95x driver.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone here uses LTSP much and might have some of those
> MSU surplus Optiplex GX1's that they have working and maybe could give
> some insight...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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