[ipxe-devel] Hang during 'establishing link' using ASIX USB dongle and undi driver

[Mike Harris]

Ah, that makes sense.

I tried using that target, and I'm getting the exact same behavior
(including the message from the PXE ROM "enumerating" and "establishing
link" after iPXE starts). I would expect those message to not appear,
right? Is there some other parameter I need to pass to make to omit those
calls?


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 15/04/14 00:08, Mike Harris wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get a ASIX USB dongle booting with iPXE using chainloading
>> and the UNDI drivers. It's hanging during the 'Establishing link' step.
>> This is on a Lenovo X1 Carbon, an ultrabook with no onboard NIC, and
>> this device is the only one Lenovo supports for PXE booting, going so
>> far as to blacklist other USB device IDs in the BIOS.
>>
>> I've attached two screenshots, one with DEBUG=undinet:15 and one
>> without. For some reason, when I enable debugging, the hang happens at a
>> slightly earlier spot (during 'Enumerating devices'). Both were built
>> with the same embedded script, which I've attached as 'debug.ipxe'. I
>> think the hang is in the 'dhcp' line. Initially the link lights on the
>> device are off, and iPXE prints 'Establishing link', which a dot every
>> few seconds. The link lights turn on, and the iPXE dots stop. Maybe a
>> bug in the return from the USB device's ROM?
>>
>
> Both the "Enumerating for ASIX USB DONGLE..." and "Establishing link..."
> messages are being printed by the ASIX PXE ROM.  iPXE is not in control at
> this point.
>
> It may be that the underlying PXE ROM is simply not reliable enough to
> handle being shut down and reinitialised.  You may have more luck using
> undionly.kkpxe (which will omit the calls to PXENV_UNDI_SHUTDOWN and
> PXENV_UNLOAD_STACK).
>
> Michael
>
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