Re: [SSI-users] could not find the NIC?

[Steven V. A. <dee...@ul...>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Maurice Libes wrote:
> hi to all
> 
> on ssi-1.2.2 on Debian,
> when adding a new node  (Dell precision 670)  which have an intel e1000,
> NIC, via PXE method,  i get the following error message:
> 
> "Could not find the NIC used to add this node to the cluster" unable to
> continue
> 
> i dont understand why since we already have the director node which have
> an e1000 NIC as an external interface (the one with public address)
> (internal NIC from cluster side are 3Com 3C2000  with sk98lin module)
> 
> it seems with lsmod that the e1000 module is correctly loaded...
> so the problem could come from the loaded kernel via PXE from /tftpboot?
> 
> any ideas or solution?
> 
> many thanks
> 

Hi,

does your initrd (in the tftpboot directory) contain the e1000 driver ?
If not, you should put it inside the initrd.
More information can be found at
http://www.openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=docs2/1.2/debian/INSTALL.html,
Section 3, point 2.

greets,
-- Steven

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