[ipxe-devel] HTTP timeouts

Pereira pereira at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Thu Sep 22 10:59:09 UTC 2011


Thank you Michael for your help. We already solved the problem it was... 
our DNS Server...
Very strange, it just doesn't want to answer the third dns request.
As for the new tg3 driver, I've tested them and they work fine with our 
two Broadcom cards BCM5755 and BCM5751.

regards,
Michael

On 20.09.2011 15:52, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Sunday 04 Sep 2011 23:42:36 Pereira wrote:
>> There is also a warning: "using legacy NIC wrapper",  we are using a
>> Broadcom BCM57xx network adapter.
>>
>> Any idea why this happens or debugging tips are very appreciated.
> Is the issue specific to the Broadcom (tg3) NIC that you are using?  Are you
> able to reproduce the issue with a different NIC?
>
> There is a replacement tg3 driver by Thomas Miletich that you can try using:
>
>    git remote add mcb30 git://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git
>    git fetch mcb30
>    git checkout -b tg3 mcb30/tg3
>    make bin/ipxe.lkrn
>
> This driver hasn't been merged yet; any test reports are welcome.
>
> Michael




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