[gPXE] Fails to get an address under gpxe, gets one under pxe

[tra26 at cs.drexel.edu]

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Subject: Re: [gPXE] Fails to get an address under gpxe, gets one under pxe
From:    tra26 at mail.cs.drexel.edu
Date:    Wed, April 14, 2010 9:14 am
To:      "Thomas Miletich" <thomas.miletich at gmail.com>
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Hello,

I tried the old driver (0.9.7) and the same results, fails to get an
address. There is another nic in the machine that gpxe recognizes but UNDI
is broken on it (normal pxe won't work) and same results for that one.

Thanks

-Trevor Adams

> Hello
> There was a big modification to the eepro100 driver a few releases back,
> this could be a bug introduced then. Please try a version with the old
> driver(0.9.7 should work) and tell us your results.
>
> 13.04.2010 23:24 schrieb am <tra26 at cs.drexel.edu>:
>
> Hello,
>
> Using a eepro100 card (full description below), gpxe detects the card and
> tries to dhcp from it but the connection times out. Normal pxe however
> gets an address (and I cannot chain gpxe because of the setup). This
> happens with git and 1.0.0 both built from source and from rom-o-matic.
> Because the system refuses to read the .usb image (when dd'd to a device)
> I am using syslinux as the boot loader.
>
> Steps taken
> Generate gpxe.lkrn via rom-o-matic/src.
> mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sdb 0 64 32
> syslinux /dev/sdb
> mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/disk
> cp gpxe.lkrn /mnt/disk/gpxe.lkrn
> modify syslinux.cfg
> and boot.
>
>
> Card information (pciconf -lv)
> fxp0 at pci0:1:3:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x10408086 chip=0x12298086
> rev=0x0c
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>    device     = '82550/1/7/8/9 EtherExpress PRO/100(B) Ethernet Adapter'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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