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

[Maurice L. <li...@co...>]

Steven Van Acker wrote:
> 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.
>
ok thanks for your answer...
but i think that it is what i have already done...

* the e1000 module is present in the debian /lib/modules tree

find /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp/ -name e1000
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000

then we made a mkinitrd -o
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp 
2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp

then we made the ssi-ksync
which have updated the /tftpboot/initrd
(dated from Dec 20th)

  ll /tftpboot/
total 10320
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2259627 Oct 26 13:27 00initrd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4138496 Dec 20 17:07 combined
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2048570 Dec 20 17:07 initrd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2080419 Oct 21 17:53 kernel
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   11830 Oct 28 15:49 pxelinux.0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Nov 22 17:15 pxelinux.cfg

and..we have still the error message "Could not find the NIC  used to
add this node to the cluster"

how can i know if the e1000 module is correctly added in the 
/tftpboot/initrd ?


have i made something wrong? or forgot something?
thanks for further help

M


> greets,
> -- Steven
>