Re: PXESconfig - unable to use

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:46, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Diego,
> 
> first of all: THANKs a billion times for such a brillaint software! I'm
> really really impressed.
> 
Thnkas for you comments.
> I've reduxed an old Pentium 90Mhz with it and now (after a horrible trip
> including a firmware update for the new PXE-Version of the NIC...) it is
> running with your version from August this year.
> 
> A lot of things I have to alter in the .../pxelinux.cfg/default file as
> a kernel parameter. 
> Only some of them are not working (i.e. the USB-Moduels are loaded with
> USB_LOCAL_ENABLED=0 too) but thats only cosmetic.
LOCAL_USB_ENABLED=0 !!
> 
> The most interfering thing is the DHCP-Error direct after the
> initialisation procedure for the NIC. That's not only cosmetic. The
> normal user (my Mom ;-)) ) is nearly unable to open a terminal and
> entering 'ud' followed by TAB and ENTER and final CTRL-D to manual
> activate the dhcp client again.
If you tell me which is the error...
> 
> My assume is, that there should be a short time between the
> NIC-initiallisation and the dhcp request. Is there an hidden parameter?
> 
> Of course, I could use the pxesconfig tool. Unfortunately this is
> running with GTK-pm. That wouldnt be a problem - I thought. Just install
> the RPM. But: thats not so easy - because the GNOME2 uses GTK2 and is
> not possible to run with the older libs.
> Do you have a Version of the configuration-tool running with the usual
> GNOME2 (i.e. on SUSE 8) ? It would really help... Or is there a
> configuartion / parameter file for editing with vi? 
pxesconfig runs on Fedora Core 1 and 2 as well as RedHat 7, 8, 9 and EL
3, should run on SUSE but RPM naming is different.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your assistance,
Please, use the mailing list.
> 
> Arne
> 



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