Re: Netboot with DEC DC21140 Network-Card

[Roland Rohde <roro@artificial-organs.de>]

Tobias Wolf:
> 
> Hi there !
> 
> Does anyone also have problems with this card ?
> 
> I have compiled the Kernel for the Client with all
> necessary things (tcp/ip, nfs, root over nfs and the
> tulip driver(v0.89) ).
> 
> the point there it wants to mount the root
> filesystem. It only prompts:
>         NFS-Server (191.168.1.1) not responding, still trying.
> While booting i monitored eth0: on the server.
> I saw the bootp-request and how the bootimage was sent,
> but no nfs-request from the client.

I experienced the same problem with a  + x.1 newer 
hardware version of a 21143 card made by the same taiwanese
manufacturer. 
While the 
"tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov" 
driver of SuSE 6.0 worked fine with the older hardware, 
the kernel showed your error message with the newer HW. 
With a newer 
"tulip.c:v0.90p 2/18/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov" 
driver it worked. Btw, I had to download the driver by ftp. 
Downloading it by Netscape it didn't compile. Copy tulip.c to your
clients /usr/src/linux-2.0.36.SuSE/drivers/net 
dir and make a new client kernel.

Gruss,
                    roro

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