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 > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY NOTICE > > The contents of this message and any attachments may be confidential and > proprietary and also may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy > Act. This message is not intended to be used by, and should not be relied > upon in any way, by any third party. If you are not an intended recipient, > please inform the sender of the transmission error and delete this message > immediately without reading, disseminating, distributing or copying the > contents. Citadel makes no assurances that this e-mail and any attachments > are free of viruses and other harmful code. > _______________________________________________ > gPXE mailing list > [email protected] > http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe > _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
