On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Roberts, Adam
<[email protected]> 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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