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

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

Roger Tsang wrote:
> Sounds like you need to replace the initrd / combined in /tftpboot
> with a new one that contains the MAC address of your e1000 NIC.

dear roger

as you previously advised i checked that the e1000 driver is in the 
initrd file (by mounting the initrd file on loopback)

$ ls -l 
/mnt/initrd/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/
total 78
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 78167 Dec 22 13:53 e1000.o

(which is normal since i previously made a mkinitrd followed by a ssi-ksync)

so what's the problem "Could not find the NIC used to add this node to 
the cluster"
since the e1000 module is embedded in the initrd file?

i don't understand your proposition above...
how and where to replace the MAC address with the one of the new card?

thanks

ML


> Roger
> 
> 
> On 12/21/05, Maurice Libes <li...@co...> wrote:
> 
>>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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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