<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Arnaud,<br></div>can you check if ifopen also freezes if the network cable is disconnected?<br><br></div>I have also pushed some modifications to the 3c90x driver here:<br>
<a href="https://git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/3c90x">https://git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git/shortlog/refs/heads/3c90x</a><br><br></div>One of the commits has a very slim chance of fixing your issue, I wouldn't hold my breath though.<br>
</div>You can get it with:<br><br></div>git clone git://<a href="http://git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git">git.ipxe.org/people/meteger/ipxe.git</a><br></div>cd ipxe/src<br>git checkout 3c90x<br><br></div>Then build iPXE as usual.<br>
<br>Thomas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Arnaud Adamy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnaud.adamy@free.fr" target="_blank">arnaud.adamy@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
<div>The card works perfectly in Windows 98 SE, in Windows 2000 and with Debian
7.</div>
<div>In the BIOS, the plug&play option is set to off, the mainboard an ISA
card, an AGP video card and some PCI cards too.</div>
<div>The PC needs to be used today, but there is another 3C905C-TX in a box,
I’ll try with it in another computer. And if it works, I’ll exchange the two
cards.</div>
<div>Maybe it is an IRQ or a bus problem. I’ll try to put the card in another
PCI location and test it again the late afternoon.</div>
<div>Moreover I’ve done tests again early this morning and it freeze every time.
I cannot explain why if worked the first time....</div>
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<div>I just tried to reproduce the problem, but everything worked fine here. I
tested with a 3c905C, PCI ID 10B7:9200, the same as yours.<br><br></div>Could
you put the 3c90x card into another machine and see if iPXE freezes in that
machine too? Does the card work in Linux or Windows or whatever OS you
use?<br><br></div>This should be valuable information in trying to track down
the issue. I'll also see if I can spot anything obvious in the driver
code.<br><br>Thomas<br></div>
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<div>What I wanted to say is if I don’t press Ctrl+B, the message to press it
disappear and only the messages to the Features line remain.</div>
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<div>I just made the test again with the debug version I’ve build, and indeed,
when I use ifopen or ifopen net0, it crach with the same messages as the debug
for dhcp do.</div>
<div>And I retested with the live CD and it freeze too.</div>
<div>That’s strange... I’ve done hard reboot, stop and run again, but the fact
is, now it crash every time with ifopen.</div>
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<div>I have done a memtest86 with 3 passes and 64% of the fourth and no errors
detected. The machine is very stable and haven’t had any problem in the
past.</div>
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<div>Thanks for the log file.<br><br></div>I'm quite puzzled by the output.
You said you could open and close the interface manually, yet the log shows
that it freezes in the open function.<br><br></div>It seems to freeze right
when we send the receive ring buffer address to the card.<br><br></div>Can you
get us another log, where you execute the following commands:<br></div>ifopen
net0<br>dhcp net0<br><br></div>Although there shouldn't be any difference, as
dhcp calls open internally, I'd like to know why your manual ifopen didn't
freeze.<br><br>><font face="Arial"> For test purpose I’m using the live CD
(1.0.0+ (c692a)) from your web site. It load SysLinux and iPXE and stop after
the “Features:” sentence. Just the cursor blink forever.</font>
<div><font face="Arial">> When I enter the console with Crtl+B, I
get:</font></div>
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<div>I'm not sure what you're saying here. iPXE freezes after the "Feature"
line, but you can press CTRL+B to get to the iPXE prompt? iPXE should try to
autoboot after the feature line.<br><br></div>
<div>If it doesn't try to autoboot, please run memtest86+ or something similar
on the machine and let it do a couple of passes, just to make sure we're not
seeing any weird hardware issues.<br></div>
<div> </div>Thanks<br></div>Thomas<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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