[ipxe-devel] Need Help - Broadcom 440x

KUMAAN 9maaan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 00:44:40 UTC 2013


What does happen in ipxe shell of undionly.kpxe
when you execute the following ipxe script
which is independent of LAN network and DHCP server ?

ifstat
ifopen net0
set net0/ip 192.168.0.100

> Yes, and that produces mixed results:
> 
> 1. When I try iPXE by booting to a CD... this is when the error
> happens... and then the machine is completely frozen (ctrl-alt-del does
> not work).
>    - This uses the ipxe.krn file, extracted from the ISO created by the
> iPXE Makefile.
> 
> 2. When I try iPXE by PXE booting of the network card and then chain
> loading iPXE... the error does not happen.
>    - This uses the undionly.kpxe file, created by the iPXE Makefile.
> 
> 
> This error occurs with the following GIT commits:
> - 936134ed460618e18cc05d677a442d43d5e739a1 (roughly 6/24/2013)
> - 7405685df2bea9a457970d8b5a63ede08fcda6f7 (roughly 9/25/2013)
> 
> 
> In case #1 above, I get the following when running 'ifstat' from the shell:
> net0: 00:1a:a0:07:3d:98 using BCM4401-B0 on PCI02:09.0 (closed)
>   [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
> 
> In case #2 above, I get the following when running 'ifstat' from the shell:
> net0: 00:1a:a0:07:3d:98 using undionly on UNDI-PCI02:09.0 (closed)
>   [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013-10-12 18:07, Brian Rak wrote:
>> Did you try both the undionly and ipxe.pxe versions?
>>
>> On 10/12/2013 6:56 PM, Dyweni - iPXE-Devel wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I have a Dell Optiplex 320 with a Broadcom 440x Integrated Network
>>> Controller.  When I boot iPXE, I receive the following errors:
>>>
>>> Could not open net0: Operation not supported
>>> Could not configure net0: Operation not supported
>>> <last 2 lines repeat three times total>
>>>
>>> This is in response to the 'dhcp' command, the first command in the
>>> embedded script.
>>>
>>> Would you help be troubleshoot this please?
>>>
>>
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