Client Not Booting (cannot get IP)

[fire_missionary]

I'm running into a snag. Everything seems to run nicely up until the client, after selecting to load Clonezilla, attemtps to bring up eth0.
It is unable to get an ip address over dhcp through the DRBL server.

"
Leasing IP address via [eth0]: 3.
udhcpc (v1.10.3) started
[     11.792792] eth0: link up
Sleep for 0 sec(s) to wait for this NIC ready...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, failing
Only IP address offered by this DHCP server name will be accepted:
Unable to obtain IP address via wired link [eth0]!
"
It then goes to try 2 more times before notifying to fail to mount root fs.
I did set up the port 1068 for dhcp server on the DRBL box, i even disabled our other dhcp server to no avail.

running ls_pciid.sh results with the following network card:
Ethernet controller: AMD 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
I did find "pcnet32" in the /usr/lib/mkpxeinitrd-net/initrd-skel/etc/pcitable in 2 places.

Any ideas?

[Steven Shiau]

Did you run:
2. /opt/drbl/sbin/mknic-nbi --udhcpc-port 1068
on DRBL server,
and
3. use special etherboot floppy to boot your clients
as shown in
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=37_coexist_with_existing_dhcp.faq ?