[gPXE] Intel NIC Link-state problem

[rulerof at gmail.com]

Hello Chris,

While I can't really help troubleshoot your issue, there was just another  
thread on the list today about a fellow who was unable to pull DHCP with  
gPXE on an eepro100 but the vendor PXE was working just fine.

You can get more info here:  
http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2010-April/000869.html

Apparently, the eepro100 driver underwent significant changes recently, the  
suggestion Thomas mentioned was to try a build that uses the old driver.  
gPXE 0.9.7 should include that driver. I don't know exactly where to get  
the source code, but you can likely find the appropriate image you're  
seeking from rom-o-matic via this link:  
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.7/contrib/rom-o-matic/

Give that a try and please let us know, if there's an issue that needs to  
be corrected then I'm sure the more information we get back, the better.

Best of luck to you,
Andrew Bobulsky

On Apr 13, 2010 9:17pm, Christopher Armenio  
<Christopher.Armenio at resquared.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I seem to be having a problem getting gPXE to correctly
> interact with my intel NIC (integrated intel eepro100). I believe gPXE
> is incorrectly reporting the link as being down. There are both link
> and activity lights on the physical interface, and I can see the RX
> counter incrementing using the 'ifstat' command.


> Any thoughts/suggestions?
> Thanks!
> -Chris
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/attachments/20100414/7438f846/attachment.html