[gPXE] gPXE 1.0.0-rc1 Test Report & Question

[Robert Boerner]

Hi Neil,

That was fast :-)

I am not receiving any error. It just seems as if no NIC is detected.
Am I correct in assuming that when booting it should identify the NIC
in the boot messages, and that when accessing the gPXE command line
issuing an iftstat command should list all found interfaces? During
the boot it simply states No more network devices. I tried ifstat and
nothing was returned, and then tried an ifstat net0 (I believe the
syntax was correct) and I get net0: no such interface.

I tried both the floppy and .iso image downloads from the rom-omatic
site referenced in the rc1 announcement. I thought about inputing the
device and vendor IDs, but I am not trying to flash the ROM of the
onboard NIC.

One tidbit I left out earlier is that this 755 is running the latest
BIOS from Dell, A15.

Your success seems to indicate I am in fact doing something wrong....

Thanks again for your help,

Robert Boerner

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Neil Smith <n5eil.neil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Could you please explain in more detail what type of setup you are running, and what errors you are getting returned?
>
> I have plenty of Dell Opti 755s running on my end, with no issues...
>
> Regards,
> Neil
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Robert Boerner wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm a bit of a newb in terms of gPXE, but after successfully setting
>> up plain old PXE booting last week on a Marvell Sheevaplug, I wanted
>> to dip my toes into new waters.
>>
>> I saw the release announcement on the soon to be retired Etherboot
>> mailing list here:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4B5F5EA3.3040505%40etherboot.org
>>
>> and tried to download a floppy image (including all NIC drivers) to
>> test on my work desktop (a Dell Optiplex 755) with an Intel 82566DM-2
>> Gigabit NIC identified with vendor ID 8086 and device ID 10bd.
>>
>> The floppy boots but does not seem to find a supported NIC. I googled
>> a bit and found nothing relevant to gPXE, but I did find this bug in
>> your bug tracker:
>>
>> http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=43
>>
>> Although not exactly the same device, am I correct in assuming that my
>> NIC simply is not supported yet? Or did I simply do something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for the work you have done.
>>
>> Robert Boerner
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