Re: PXES and PRO/1000 drivers

Angus GRIFFIN wrote:

> Diego,
> I work for Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. We are looking 
> at using PXES bootable workstations as XDM based terminals to our RH 
> enterprise server. The systems works extremely well, I'm very 
> impressed with the work you've done on it.
>
> Although 0.8-9PB works out of the box on machines with PRO/100 cards 
> in them, a lot of our newer machines use Intel PRO/1000 MT cards. I 
> have made a fair effort to compile and include the e1000 drivers in 
> our pxes-0.8.squash image but have not had any success yet.
>
> Following your howto instructions, I have tried compiling the e1000 
> drivers included in the standard 2.4.20 kernel, but am unable to use 
> them on the 2.4.20-10pxes kernel included with pxes-0.8 - several 
> unresolved symbols. I have also tried compiling new versions of the 
> kernel (2.4.22) and using those with pxes, but they simply don't boot 
> (they uncompress the kernel image, then just stop), regardless of the 
> root image format I use (squash, iso, initrd).
>
> I would appreciate any help or pointers you can give me to get the 
> e1000 drivers working in PXES - alternatively, is there a possibility 
> that they will be included with an upcoming release?.
>
> Regards,
> Angus Griffin
>
> Server Administrator
> School of Computer & Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Mt 
> Lawley, Perth, Western Australia
> Work: +618 9370 6507
> Fax: +618 9370 6311
> email: [email protected]
>
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You should have no problems compiling a 2.4.20 kernel using the config 
file included in PXES distribution and adding e1000 support.

Anyway, I'm thinking about including it in next release, don't worry.

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