<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Ubuntubeta, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.989999771118164px; background-color: rgb(235, 236, 228); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div id="post_message_12999181" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="postcontent restore" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;">My assignment is to get the Mac Minis to boot as thin clients for Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTSP. I have made some progress by doing the following:<br><br>Install a Mac OS Partition on a thumbdrive with rEFIt. <a href="http://refit.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 72, 20); text-decoration: none;">http://refit.sourceforge.net/</a><br>Place an MSDOS FAT partition on the same thumbdrive with iPXE. <a href="http://ipxe.org/download" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 72, 20); text-decoration: none;">http://ipxe.org/download</a><br><br>This actually allowed me to utilize the rEFIt bootloader and start the SYSLINUX imaged FAT partition withe configuration pointing at the iPXE kernel.<br><br>However, no network card was found.<br><br>So I got the Device and Vendor ID from the Broadcom 57766-A1:<br>Vendor ID: 0x14e4<br>Device ID: 0x1686<br><br>And added it to the file: /ipxe/src/drivers/net/tg3/tg3.c<br><br>Which looks something like this:<br><br>static struct pci_device_id tg3_nics[] = {<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1644, "14e4-1644", "14e4-1644", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1645, "14e4-1645", "14e4-1645", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1646, "14e4-1646", "14e4-1646", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1647, "14e4-1647", "14e4-1647", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1648, "14e4-1648", "14e4-1648", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x164d, "14e4-164d", "14e4-164d", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1653, "14e4-1653", "14e4-1653", 0),<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1654, "14e4-1654", "14e4-1654", 0),</blockquote><blockquote class="postcontent restore" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;">...<br>PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1686, "14e4-1686", "14e4-1686", 0),<br><br>Recompiled the kernel and a rEFIt -> iPXE boot actually got the Link up on the network card and I can see the requests in the DHCP server logs. However, the iPXE command: ifstat shows 0 RX and 0 RXE. As if the response packets are not being captured. At this point I am dead in the water.<br><br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>