[gPXE] undionly and new HP serverengines NIC

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Roberts, Adam
<Adam.Roberts at citadelgroup.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following an IRC chat with mdc, I am posting an issue I am running into with a new NIC and undionly.kpxe in the hope that someone can help me out.
>
> The next generation of HP blades (G7) uses the following NIC:
>
> http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/19a2/0710/103c3345
>
> It is a BladeEngine card, and when I pxe boot it using normal pxelinux I am able to install RHEL5.5 no problem (it uses the be2net driver).
>
> The problem lies with the UNDI driver in gpxe.  It recognizes the NIC, can ifopen it, and brings up link at 100MB.  But all DHCP attempts on it fail.  No packets at all are transmitted or receieved.
> Debug shows all the interface opens, closes and removes happening as you'd expect.  But there is no traffic.

If you build with DEBUG=pxeparent, do you get debug messages?  For
example, if the UNDI firmware returns an error from the transmit call
then there will be some output.

Stefan

>
> I have confirmed this isn't an artifact of STP or PortFast (the switch is configured correctly, and other types of NIC in earlier blades gPXE fine).
>
> Please let me know what other information will help solve this issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - adam
>
>
>
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