[ipxe-devel] [tg3] iPXE has major networking issues on recent iMac

[Calvin Owens]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 20 Jul 2012 18:25:10 Calvin Owens wrote:
>> I'm having issues getting a recent Intel iMac to boot over PXE. The problem
>> seems to be that the DHCP requests never reach the wire. Running tcpdump
>> on the server, I see no traffic at all from iPXE.
>
> The tg3 driver has just been updated with a set of fixes from Broadcom.  Could
> you try with the latest commit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael

Apologies for not writing you back sooner, this got buried in my
mailbox somehow...

The behavior is unchanged: the current HEAD (v1.0.0-1116-ga4d1250) still fails
to boot on the iMacs. Running "ifstat" from the Ctrl+B prompt references error
0x3c256003.

If I configure a static IP on the iPXE host, I see error 0x06016001. The ARP
behavior is the same as before (iPXE responds to my servers ARP requests).
The RX counter actually increments now, but no packets other than ARP
reach the server.

I also reverted to d97c6a3 and applied some patches that Cody Cutler
(CC'd) sent
me (they didn't apply to the current HEAD), which also resulted in no change. I
attached his patch for reference.

The NIC's MAC address is 40:6c:8f:34:39:f2, with PCI ID 14e4:16b4.

Let me know if there's any other information I can provide you guys with.

Cheers,
Calvin Owens
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