Hi. First, I love PLoP. Works like a charm. I'm booting off of PXE and NFS mounting to get the filesystems.
However, I have a system with Broadcom NICs and the driver doesn't seem to be there for it.
What is the easiest way to get the latest NIC drivers/modules in and running to support PXE/NFS?
Thanks in advance!!
CS
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Hi. First, I love PLoP. Works like a charm.
nice to hear :)
please tell me what card does not work? all cards except isa, tokenring and extreme experimental are included in the kernel. maybe i forgot one.
i will explain how you can add modules, but wait until the next release, then some things will be easier because patching the kernel will be no longer required. i change to squashfs 4.0 which is included since 2.26.29.
the new release will come when the kernel 2.26.31 is released.
regards
elmar
Thanks for the quick response!!
BTW, I started out working w/ DSL to build a small PXE Linux enivornment, but as soon as I came across PLoP, my world became a happy place. ;D
The NIC on this system is a Broadcom NetXtreme gigabit adapter. When it's booting, I see the following when it starts to try for a DHCP address:
tg3 0000:04:00:00 PMI# disabled
If I'm not mistaken, tg3 is the Broadcom driver, but perhaps it's an older driver? Thoughts?
BTW, when is the next version due out? ;)
the tg3 driver is in the kernel. what happens when you boot with the plop linux live cd and setup the networkcard by hand
i dont know your network here is an example
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
try to ping any ip (not dns) in your network
what happens?