I wish to put the kernel with ip auto config enable (BOOTP / ipconfig.c) and root on NFS to make laptops diskless (to install/backup them). Using cardmgr, I succeed by recalling ip_auto_config in the init function of the nfsroot.c code. This is necessary because ip auto config code is called before I can run cardmgr in the linuxrc script (kernel 2.2). But I don't want to change the kernel sources. I have tried kernel 2.3.40 with support of PCMCIA and PCMCIA network cards support : it seems nice for what I want... (it's experimental, ok, but I don't need perfect stability!) but I don't succeed to make ip auto config detect my PCMCIA network card. I probably made a mistake in the configuration. I just want to know if I can use bootp during the boot having a network PCMCIA card (is the PCMCIA drivers are loaded before ipconfig.c?). Thanks for your time & work |
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