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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi to everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to report a problem using gpxe
( and ipxe) to boot thin-clients at Ubuntu 10.04 LTSP network. ( With
sch-scripts at a School network).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I use an i3 proccessor (4Gb RAM) for
server, a gigabit switch and gigabit network cards (<b>D-LINK DGE-528T GIGABIT
PCI CARD</b>) at thin-clients, with gpxe for booting (I tried and ipxe).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The problem is that in the procedure of
booting, I see at the monitor of thin-clients something like that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With gpxe:<br>
net0: :1c:bd:b9:dd:e4:8a on PCI00:0c.0 (open)<br>
[link:up, TX:0, TXE:0, RX:0, RXE:0]<br>
DHCP (net0 1c:bd:b9:dd:e4:8a)...........................<br>
COnnection time out (0x4c106035)<br>
No more network devices<br>
<br>
With ipxe:<br>
net0 :1c:bd:b9:dd:8a<br>
using rtl8169-0x4300 on PCI00:0c (open)<br>
DHCP (net0 1c:bd:b0:dd:8a)................................<br>
Connection time out (</span><a target="_blank" href="http://ipxe.org/4c106035"><span lang="EN-US">http://ipxe.org/4c106035</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(With older network cards (100Mbit) at the
thin-clients, there is no problem ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And also, the network card -at the
beginning of booting and after- “is dead”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If anyone can help – or correct the problem
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Katsadouros Dimitris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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