3 Dec
2003
3 Dec
'03
8:08 p.m.
I'm able to load the pxe images for udpcast successfully on my network
clients using tftp and dhcp. However, I'm running into a problem
loading a network driver. Is there any undi driver built into the pxe
image or do I need to compile my own kernel with support for one?
3 Dec
3 Dec
10:52 p.m.
begin Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:08, Eric Becker quote:
I'm able to load the pxe images for udpcast
successfully on my network
clients using tftp and dhcp. However, I'm running into a problem
loading a network driver. Is there any undi driver built into the pxe
image or do I need to compile my own kernel with support for one?
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When booting with PXE, network drivers (used by udpcast itself) are
handled the same way as with booting from floppy or cdrom: they come
out of the initrd. No need to compile them into the kernel. Just
include them into initrd the same way as you would into the initrd on
floppy. These are just normal Linux network card drivers, not UNDI.
As for the drivers needed by PXE itself (in order to load the kernel
and the initrd): this depends on your PXE Rom. Normally, your PXE rom
comes with your machine (usually present on motherboard with builtin
network interface) and supports its own network interface.
There are a number of PXE booters to write on floppy (Argon/Rbfg,
...), usually they have some way of picking a network driver for PXE
loading.
Regards,
Alain
4 Dec
4 Dec
7:49 a.m.
hi,
the network driver has nothing to do with UNDI, after pxe (kernel and
initrd loading) you have got a normal linux booting process with a
ramdisk.
Be shure, that you have copied the driver module from /lib/modules/<your
kernel>/kernel/drivers/net/<your nic>.o onto your initrd. If you can
boot the "master" system for the pxe-image from hd or cdrom, type
"lsmod", to find out which network driver is loaded. It would be one of
"/lib/modules/<your kernel>/kernel/drivers/net/<your nic>.o". You
can
also look into /var/log/messages or boot.msg on your pxe-system, to find
an error message about the missing module. Or compile the network driver
directly into a new kernel ("lspci -v" on the master system is also
helpful).
ciao
Eric Becker schrieb:
I'm able to load the pxe images for udpcast successfully on my network
clients using tftp and dhcp. However, I'm running into a problem
loading a network driver. Is there any undi driver built into the pxe
image or do I need to compile my own kernel with support for one?
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