[ipxe-devel] Docking USB-C Lenovo

Andreas Fink afink at list.fink.org
Wed Oct 10 06:59:20 UTC 2018


Please note: there are two docking stations from Lenovo looking exactly the same. One has USB-C and one has Thunderbolt-3 which has the same plug as USB-C.
So in one case you see a PCI device, in the other a USB device.

> On 10 Oct 2018, at 08:54, Álvaro Javier Gasco Fernández <agascof at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> El mar., 9 oct. 2018 a las 10:53, Geert Stappers (<geert.stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl <mailto:geert.stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl>>) escribió:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 09:23:39AM +0200, Álvaro Javier Gasco Fernández wrote:
> > El mar., 9 oct. 2018 a las 9:18, Geert Stappers (<geert.stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl <mailto:geert.stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl>>) escribió:
> > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Álvaro Javier Gasco Fernández wrote:
> > > > Good Morning list!!
> > > >
> > > > My name is Alvaro and this is the first time that i write to the list.
> > > > First of all i want to thanks to the team for this incredible work done
> > > > in this project.
> > > >
> > > > Second one, i would like to explain a problema that i have with two of my
> > > > laptops. I have a lenovo T480s and a L480 with an USB-C Docking. When i
> > > > launch the network boot with the USB-C Docking connected and IPXE starts,
> > > > the process is frozen at Windows Logo.
> > >
> > > Seems to me that payload is transferred and started.
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, win file is transfered ok,
> > is exactly in this moment when the process stop...
> 
> So iPXE did it's task ...
> 
> Yes, i thought that! Probably is the load of kernel with the boot.wim file i guess. 
> 
> > > > IPXE recognizes the network and gives me an address but after that,
> > > > no more things happened.
> > > >
> > > > Can you help me with that?? If you need more info, of course,
> > > > i will give you as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > I think the boot process is stalled in Windows userland.
> > > My guess is that it hangs on USB-C authorization check.
> > >
> > 
> > How can i fix or confirm that??
> 
> I don't known. For me is USB-C thunderbolt. To get wired ethernet at
> thunderbolt docking system working, I had to authorize the devices.
> I assume Windows has a same authorization scheme for
> USB-C aka thunderbolt, hence my guess. So you need to debug MS Windows.
> 
> I wil try to debug wimboot. Thanks to all for your help.
> Regards. 
>  
> > Thanks a lot.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> Regards
> Geert Stappers
> Happy Linux user
> -- 
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