Issues with some Network Cards

[sujan54004]

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

[robinsmidsrod]

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.

[sujan54004]

(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

[mastacontrola]

(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.

[sujan54004]

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

[mastacontrola]

.kkkpxe won't be of any use to you. This file is reserved for syslinux pxelinux.0 file building.