[ipxe-devel] e1000e/8086:1502 not working?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Thu Dec 8 17:02:21 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 06 Dec 2011 14:48:57 LEVAI, Levente wrote:
> I'm using ipxe.lkrn/ipxe.exe. Since my mail I found out that
> the problem is that when building ipxe.lkrn from the new(er)
> snapshot the resulting binary does not fall back to undipci
> when no drivers are found, whereas the march snapshot does.
> 
> I have had no time to check the latest version in which, as
> it seems to me from the commit logs, the build process was
> fixed.

Let me know when you've tested the latest version.

> What do you think
> -will undipci work in ipxe.exe?

It's possible.  It depends heavily on your BIOS and on the PXE ROM.

> -is 8086:1502 (there is an 8086:1503, too) would be a difficult
>   task?

Did you try simply adding a relevant PCI_ROM() line?  That sometimes works, if 
the new card is sufficiently similar to an existing card.

Michael



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