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Issues with some Network Cards - sujan54004 - 2014-06-12 07:35
Hi,
I've been having issues booting up with some network controllers like Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (10/100/1000MBit). The system finds the dhcp IP address and gets into ipxe but it gets stuck while trying to get the link up (net0).
Looks like this:
iPXE initialising devices...ok
iPXE 1.0.0+ (e0478) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org
Features: HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE SRP bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu
net 0 :00:17:42:c8:0c:8c:8e using m88e8055 on PCI00:00.0 (open)
[Link: down, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
[Link status: Down (http:/ipxe.org/38086101)]
Waiting for link-up on net0.............. --- Gets stuck here ---
Thanks in advance,
Sujan
RE: Issues with some Network Cards - robinsmidsrod - 2015-03-09 11:57
You should try to go through the tests on http://ipxe.org/dev/driver and report your findings on the mailing-list. Seems like you might be dealing with a driver bug.
RE: Issues with some Network Cards - sujan54004 - 2015-03-09 12:06
(2015-03-09 11:57)robinsmidsrod Wrote: You should try to go through the tests on http://ipxe.org/dev/driver and report your findings on the mailing-list. Seems like you might be dealing with a driver bug.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I'm not involved in this project at the moment but I will go through the tests when I start working on this again.
Cheers,
Sujan
RE: Issues with some Network Cards - mastacontrola - 2015-03-09 12:16
(2015-03-09 12:06)sujan54004 Wrote:(2015-03-09 11:57)robinsmidsrod Wrote: You should try to go through the tests on http://ipxe.org/dev/driver and report your findings on the mailing-list. Seems like you might be dealing with a driver bug.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I'm not involved in this project at the moment but I will go through the tests when I start working on this again.
Cheers,
Sujan
Although you're not able to test,
It'd be good to know what file or files you're attempting to boot and whether this is in a chainloaded environment or not.
For example, if you're loading the undionly files, have you tried .kkpxe instead of just .kpxe? Have you tried swapping the undionly file out for the ipxe.pxe files?
This may help you out.
RE: Issues with some Network Cards - sujan54004 - 2015-03-09 12:30
Quote:Although you're not able to test,
It'd be good to know what file or files you're attempting to boot and whether this is in a chainloaded environment or not.
For example, if you're loading the undionly files, have you tried .kkpxe instead of just .kpxe? Have you tried swapping the undionly file out for the ipxe.pxe files?
This may help you out.
Hi again,
I was trying to chainload and I haven't tried .kkpxe and .kkkpxe yet. It's already been about 9 months so I couldn't remember much. I'll try to make some tests soon and let you know about the results.
Cheers,
Sujan
RE: Issues with some Network Cards - mastacontrola - 2015-03-09 12:31
.kkkpxe won't be of any use to you. This file is reserved for syslinux pxelinux.0 file building.