[ipxe-devel] Docking USB-C Lenovo

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 09:23:39AM +0200, Álvaro Javier Gasco Fernández wrote:
> El mar., 9 oct. 2018 a las 9:18, Geert Stappers (<geert.stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl>) escribió:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Álvaro Javier Gasco Fernández wrote:
> > > Good Morning list!!
> > >
> > > My name is Alvaro and this is the first time that i write to the list.
> > > First of all i want to thanks to the team for this incredible work done
> > > in this project.
> > >
> > > Second one, i would like to explain a problema that i have with two of my
> > > laptops. I have a lenovo T480s and a L480 with an USB-C Docking. When i
> > > launch the network boot with the USB-C Docking connected and IPXE starts,
> > > the process is frozen at Windows Logo.
> >
> > Seems to me that payload is transferred and started.
> >
> 
> Yes, win file is transfered ok,
> is exactly in this moment when the process stop...

So iPXE did it's task ...

 
> > > IPXE recognizes the network and gives me an address but after that,
> > > no more things happened.
> > >
> > > Can you help me with that?? If you need more info, of course,
> > > i will give you as soon as possible.
> >
> > I think the boot process is stalled in Windows userland.
> > My guess is that it hangs on USB-C authorization check.
> >
> 
> How can i fix or confirm that??

I don't known. For me is USB-C thunderbolt. To get wired ethernet at
thunderbolt docking system working, I had to authorize the devices.
I assume Windows has a same authorization scheme for
USB-C aka thunderbolt, hence my guess. So you need to debug MS Windows.

> Thanks a lot.

Good luck


Regards
Geert Stappers
Happy Linux user
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Devops engineer at hendrikx-itc.nl