[gPXE] gPXE 1.0.0-rc1 Test Report & Question

[Robert Boerner]

Using the boot floppy referenced below, gPXE (although this version
identifies itself as 0.9.9+ and not the rc1) seems to detect the NIC.
Running an ifstat at the command prompt seems to confirm this, but
running a dhcp net0 results in an error:

gPXE> dhcp net0
DHCP (net0 00:1e:4f:d3:28:a1)................Connection timed out (0x4c106035)
Could not configure net0: Connection timed out (0x4c106035)

Anything else I should/could try? Will trying the *.iso make any
difference? It's easy to reuse the floppies as I am running out of
CD-Rs :-)

Thanks again for the help.

Bob

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Marty Connor <mdc at etherboot.org> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> You can try a test version of the new e1000e driver here:
>
>   http://etherboot.org/share/mdc/e1000e-only.dsk
>
> or here:
>
>   http://etherboot.org/share/mdc/e1000e-only.iso
>
> Please let us know how things go.
>
> / Marty /
>
> On 1/26/10 6:42 PM, Robert Boerner wrote:
>> Thanks for the update. I guess I'll just wait since I have no ability
>> to write code :-) I just finished watching the videos of Marty Connor
>> giving talks that are on the gPXE website. Very helpful and
>> informative.
>>
>> Thanks again everyone for your help,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Joshua Oreman <oremanj at rwcr.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Robert Boerner
>>> <robert.boerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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 believe that PCI ID corresponds to a NIC implemented by the Intel
>>> e1000e driver, which has not yet been ported to gPXE. Our project
>>> leader, Marty Connor, is working on it.
>>>
>>> -- Josh
>>>
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