Indeed, the problem was the driver. I did think about that while troubleshooting, but the fact that tftp worked, always steered me in other directions - although I realize that there are two different drivers involved (the one on the floppy, and then the one in the kernel) I just spaced I guess. Thanks for the help. Ken Yap wrote: > >The DC has an SMC 1211 100Mbit card, and I have enabled the kernel for > >any and all WD and SMC cards. > > > >I'll stop here. Does the following mean my compiled ethernet driver is > >not being recognized by the kernel? > > > >IP-Config: No network devices available > > Looks like your kernel doesn't recognise the NIC. The SMC1211 is actually > a RTL8139, did you include that driver? > =========================================================================== > This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: > Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> > To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in > it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, > send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Eric Dahnke <edahnke@istreetlabs.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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