[gPXE] Best supported PCIe NIC?

[Thomas Miletich]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Andrew Robbie (Gmail)
<andrew.robbie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to identify which in-production PCI Express NICs have
> good gPXE support. So, far example, I am pretty sure the D-Link
> DGE-560T is a Marvell Yukon, using the sky2 driver, and I can buy it.
>
> Can anyone supply any other (NIC retail name, chipset, driver) tuples?
> I am particularly interested in any Intel or Broadcom Tigon 3 (tg3)
> NICs.

While gPXE does have a tg3 driver, it it quite old. It hasn't been
updated for a while and likely doesn't support new tg3 models.
The current e1000 driver supports a few PCIe cards, see the PCI IDs at
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-git/gpxe.git/src/bin/NIC
gPXE's project leader, Marty Connor, is working on an e1000e driver.
You can download a test version at
http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2010-January/000312.html

There is also a PCIe version of the Realtek 8169 cards which should be
supported.

Thomas