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

[Mike Harris]

Same behavior with ipxe.usb or undi.usb, it doesn't see the network device.

When you say "provides the PXE ROM" what do you mean? You mean what the
BIOS runs during a network boot?


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 22/05/14 19:19, Mike Harris wrote:
>
>> So it seems the ASIX dongle can be initialized just once, by the PXE rom
>> in the BIOS. So I'm going to try burning ipxe to a USB stick, then
>> booting from that.
>>
>> Building a usb image should be the same, right? Just use
>> target bin/undionly.usb instead? iPXE starts OK doing that, but then
>> 'ifconf' shows no network devices. Is there something I need to do to
>> get my USB dongle to show up?
>>
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy.  The "undionly" driver is only for
> chainloading; it doesn't have any capability to load or unload an
> underlying PXE stack.
>
> You can try using bin/undi.usb (or just the usual bin/ipxe.usb); either of
> these will include the UNDI PCI driver which will attempt to load a PXE ROM
> provided by a PCI device.  If your Dell provides the PXE ROM in the form of
> a PCI ROM image (possibly with vendor:device IDs matching the USB
> controller) then there is a slim chance of this working.
>
> Michael
>
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