DHCP Failure

[abasel]

The prebuilt ISO works just great, but want to modify it so that it automatically connects to my terminal server as well as loops back to the USB, CD and sound.

I've tried doing a custom compile but no matter what NIC(s) I choose, the custom build fails to connect to the DHCP.

I have two options
1) use lsmod on the prebuilt install to determine what NIC it's seeing (but using lsmod simply gives me a list of modules and doesn't tell me what driver is actually bound to eth0) and then try and recompile again.
2) Manually modify the the prebuilt install so that it does what I want; this would be my prefered method (as the prebuild works so well) but I don't know if this is possible or how to go about it.

My Linux knowledge is VERY limited.

[Trevor Batley]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:38 -0700, abasel wrote:
> The prebuilt ISO works just great, but want to modify it so that it
> automatically connects to my terminal server as well as loops back to the
> USB, CD and sound.

Not exactly sure of what you are trying, but aren't these configurable
via the thinstation.conf.user file?
>
> I've tried doing a custom compile but no matter what NIC(s) I choose, the
> custom build fails to connect to the DHCP.
>
> I have two options
> 1) use lsmod on the prebuilt install to determine what NIC it's seeing (but
> using lsmod simply gives me a list of modules and doesn't tell me what
> driver is actually bound to eth0) and then try and recompile again.

Try
cat /var/log/messages | grep eth0

> 2) Manually modify the the prebuilt install so that it does what I want;
> this would be my prefered method (as the prebuild works so well) but I don't
> know if this is possible or how to go about it.

There should have been instructions in the download package
(_HowTo-LiveCD.txt) and the tools to reburn the ISO with your own
thinstation.conf.user file included.

Trevor B
>
> My Linux knowledge is VERY limited.
--
Trevor Batley
Thinstation Developer
http://thinstation.org


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[Trevor Batley]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:52 +1000, Trevor Batley wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:38 -0700, abasel wrote:
> > The prebuilt ISO works just great, but want to modify it so that it
> > automatically connects to my terminal server as well as loops back to the
> > USB, CD and sound.
>
> Not exactly sure of what you are trying, but aren't these configurable
> via the thinstation.conf.user file?
> >
> > I've tried doing a custom compile but no matter what NIC(s) I choose, the
> > custom build fails to connect to the DHCP.
> >
> > I have two options
> > 1) use lsmod on the prebuilt install to determine what NIC it's seeing (but
> > using lsmod simply gives me a list of modules and doesn't tell me what
> > driver is actually bound to eth0) and then try and recompile again.
>
> Try
> cat /var/log/messages | grep eth0
>
> > 2) Manually modify the the prebuilt install so that it does what I want;
> > this would be my prefered method (as the prebuild works so well) but I don't
> > know if this is possible or how to go about it.
>
> There should have been instructions in the download package
> (_HowTo-LiveCD.txt) and the tools to reburn the ISO with your own
> thinstation.conf.user file included.
>

Oops, forgot the extract I was going to include....
<extract>
* ...And what if I want to use only the CD, without the floppy?

You can use the CD without any extra config files, but if you want to
change the settings in your thinstation.conf.user file and keep them
with the CD, you can burn the thinstation.conf.user file directly inside
the CD, as ThinStation will search this file not only in the floppy but
in the cd also.

You'll find all you need to do this in the RebuildIsoWithConf\ folder:
- go in it
- copy all the files you find inside the LiveCD in the cd-files\ folder
- copy also the thinstation.profile/ folder you precedently wrote inside
the floppy  (so you should have a 'cd-files\thinstation.profile
\thinstation.conf.user' file)
- start the rebuild-iso.bat script
- now you will find a new LiveCD.desktop.iso with your conf file
hard-written inside it!

A simpler way would be to edit the supplied .iso file with an ISO
editor, add the thinstation.conf.user file and burn the new iso; BTW, I
got no success as, after editing, the ISO editor change the absolute
position of "isolinux.bin", and the CD won't boot anymore...Let me know
if you are more lucky than me.
</extract>
> Trevor B
> >
> > My Linux knowledge is VERY limited.
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Thinstation Developer
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