I have some more information on the error. Instead of using a pre-configured cast-o-matic initrd, I walked through the boot process and at the step where the tg3 driver was loaded I received a kernel message, part of it looks like this.

PCI: Setting latency timer of device ... BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000001c IP: [<f8857057>] *pde: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: tg3(+) ...

I don't know if it will but I hope this helps.

Scott Mikolyski wrote:

Alain Knaff wrote:

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Scott Mikolyski wrote:

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Hi,

I'm working with a pxe server to get workstations to boot from the network. I'm using the cast-o-matic boot image.

Everything works up until I get and error message "ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device"

Dropping to a shell, I type ifconfig and get nothing. I think I should be getting some nic information.

So it looks like to me that the network driver is not getting loaded. I've selected different modules in cast-o-matic. But I feel that it has something to do with this version of the kernel.

Last month I had this setup working perfectly. Since then, I've lost my pxe server and need to recreate it. Is it possible that this recent change broke something?

Please help. Thank you.

Could you tell me which NIC it is (name of module which worked in old kernel), so that I can investigate? Or, lacking that, the output of lspci

It's a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751.

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Thx,

Alain

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