[ipxe-devel] Intel PCIe NIC doesn't listed

[yurij]

Thanks for suggestion!

It's really helps me. I successfully load with 'ipxe.pxe' and see PCIe NIC.

Is it possible to boot over USB with ipxe and see PCIe NIC only?
I load over ipxe but see only builtin NIC.

Thanks!

On 1/29/20 1:05 PM, Christian Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 10:40, yurij <lnkgyv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> I've got last sources of ipxe from 'https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/' and
>> successfully compiled 'undionly.kpxe' with 'PCI_CMD' support.
>>
>> I load 'undionly.kpxe' over PXE without problem. But I can see only
>> builtin NIC and I can't see PCIe NIC in 'ifstat' output. For debugging I
>> chain from ipxe commandline to 'http://boot.salstar.sk/lspci.ipxe' and
>> find that ipxe see NIC in the PCIe bus. It is Intel 82571EB/GB D0/D1
>> (VID,DID: 8086:105e).
>>
>> How can I make Intel NIC visible in 'ifstat'? I want boot OS from PCIe NIC.
>>
> 
> undionly is a driver that uses the undi stack, which is what the BIOS
> or ROM of the machine or NIC provides
> It also, in normal cases, can only identify one nic in the machine.
> So it makes sense that if you chain into iPXE using the builtin nic,
> then only that nic will be available to iPXE.
> If you instead would chain via your PCIe NIC then only that nic would
> be visible.
> 
> If you want the full iPXE supported devices (multiple at the same
> time) then you probably want to build and use ipxe.pxe instead.
> 
> You can find some details about this at https://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets
> 
> /Christian
> 

-- 
with best regards
Yurij Goncharuk