[ipxe-devel] Issues with some Network Cards

[Michael Brown]

On 28/07/14 09:38, sujan karanjeet wrote:
> I've been having issues booting up with some network controllers like
> Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> (10/100/1000MBit). The system finds the DHCP IP address and gets into
> iPXE but it gets stuck while trying to get the link up (net0). Could
> someone please help me with this.
>
> This is what I see when booting:
>
>     iPXE initialising devices...ok
>
>     iPXE 1.0.0+ (e0478) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware --
>     http://ipxe.org
>     Features: HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE SRP bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu
>
>     net 0 :00:17:42:c8:0c:8c:8e using m88e8055 on PCI00:00.0 (open)
>     [Link: down, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
>     [Link status: Down (http:/ipxe.org/38086101 <http://ipxe.org/38086101>)]
>     Waiting for link-up on net0.............. --- Gets stuck here ---

Totally stuck (as in the system locks up with no change in output and no 
response to keyboard input), or eventually times out with an error message?

Michael