[gPXE] Dell T300 w/Broadcom chip: gpxe hangs during dhcp

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org> wrote:
> With sha0's help, I built gpxe with the undiebusy patch and his initrd
> patch. While this works on a VirtualBox VM with an Intel nic, when I run it
> on the Dell T300 (with the Broadcom nic) where this problem first appeared,
> it says it can't find any NICs.  Using the singleundi patch did work on this
> Dell (but I didn't have sha0's patch included in that version of gpxe).
>  Suggestions?

Thanks for testing the patch.  I think the NIC is being refused as it
tries to load UNDI.  The debug messages should help determine what is
going on:
make DEBUG=undiload,undi,undinet,undirom

Is this a dual-port NIC or two distinct NICs?

Stefan