[ipxe-devel] HP ML350 G6 support

[Divya]

Thanks John. I managed to get e1000e NICs on my server and now i am able to
do ipxe boot. Not sure why tg3 NIC is not working though.

Thanks & Regards,
Divya

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM, John Julien <john at julienfamily.com> wrote:

> Netboot Agent is for 5709 cards (14e4:1639).  I’m not familiar with the
> 14e4:1678 card but HP UNDI PXE-2.1  v10.4.6 is indicating the presence of
> a UNDI ROM which iPXE can pick up and use.  You should be able to use that
> card without having native driver support.****
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> *From:* Divya [mailto:divya.hc at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:53 PM
> *To:* John Julien
> *Cc:* ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ipxe-devel] HP ML350 G6 support****
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> Thanks John for the response. By enabling the PXE ROM, do you mean to
> enable tg3 NIC for PXE boot in BIOS? I have enabled it ( i am able to do
> gpxe boot on this), but stil. Also how do you find out the what Netboot
> agent version the card has?? ( during gpxe boot, it says HP UNDI PXE-2.1
> v10.4.6 -> is this the netboot agent version? )
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Divya****
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> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:12 PM, John Julien <john at julienfamily.com>
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> Neither of these cards have a native driver for iPXE.  There is a tg3 and
> bnx2 driver but they don't support these cards.   Your best bet is to enable
> the PXE ROM on the 14e4:1678 card and let iPXE use the UNDI driver provided
> by Broadcom.   If the bnx2 card has Netboot Agent 6.0.11, which it probably
> will, you will not be able to use the UNDI driver on that card as it is also
> incompatible with iPXE.****
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> On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Divya wrote:****
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> Hi,
>   I am trying to boot from ipxe iso image on HP ML 350 G6 server. I can go to the cmd line. "ifstat" does not list any n/w interfaces. On exit from shell ipxe reports "No more network devices".
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> The server has onboard tg3 NICS ( 14e4: 1678 ). Tried with bnx2 add on card (14e4: 1639), this doesn't work too. Am I missing anything?
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Divya ****
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