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Hello,

I have 2 dell laptops - Inspiron 8600 and 700m. Both have Broadcom 440 network card. iPXE (iso and usb) runs fine on 8600, yet it does not detect any network on 700m. ifstat shows no interface available. Before upgrading to iPXE, the gPXE successfully detected the network on 700m.

Where I can look for more information? Has there been any change in the b440 code from gPXE to iPXE?

Thank you.

What driver did gPXE use on the 700m? If it uses the tg3 driver, this has quite recently been updated. Have you tried chainloading to avoid needing native iPXE driver?

(2012-02-17 16:43)robinsmidsrod Wrote: [ -> ]What driver did gPXE use on the 700m? If it uses the tg3 driver, this has quite recently been updated. Have you tried chainloading to avoid needing native iPXE driver?

Interesting - gPXE is loading PCI UNDI driver on 700m.

The PCI device id for this NIC is ven_14e4&dev_170c&subsys_018d1028 (14e4/170c). This matches with b44 in iPXE code. However, I found an interesting thread on gPXE archives which mentions similar issue that I am having...

http://www.mail-archive.com/gpxe@etherbo...01293.html

I am not using the chainloading yet. I do not have a dhcp server setup yet to serve tftp images. I am using iPXE primarily to sanboot XP.

Thank you.