[gPXE] gPXE 1.0.0-rc1 Test Report & Question

[Marty Connor]

It is acting as if it didn't get a response from your DHCP server.

It could be a driver issue, but it could also just be a
server/wiring/switch issue.

A few questions:

What kind of DHCP server do you have?  Does it have a log (like
/var/log/messages) that you can look at to see if the MAC address of
your machine is asking for an address?

What are the PCI IDs of your card?  (if you don't know how to find them,
we can help you)

Does this exact machine boot with network access in other OSes?

Sorry for the basic debugging questions, but this could be a bad cable
or server misconfiguration.

/ Marty /

On 1/26/10 7:05 PM, Robert Boerner wrote:
> 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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