Re: gpxe support for Intel 82567

Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM, BENJAMIN LAKE DERSTINE<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for replying Thomas.   The reason I'm wanting to use gpxe is because
> it allows me to statically assign an IP without having to use DHCP(which
> isn't available in this context.)   Using the built-in pxe puts me back at
> being dependent on DHCP.  I have been able to chainload gpxe from syslinux
> which works with these NICs and allows static assignment but then the
> chainloaded gpxe still needs its own NIC driver for network access so that
> doesn't really get me anywhere.  So I'm trying to utilize gpxe in a
> situation where A; There's no driver available for it and B; DHCP isn't
> available.   Maybe that just isn't possible at this point in time.  Any
> other thoughts?
If understand correctly you want to use an UNDI driver in gPXE without
chainloading (which would force you to use DHCP).

Try make bin/undi.usb.  The undi image will try to load UNDI ROMs for
PCI network devices.  This way you do not need to chainload but can
take advantage of the vendor UNDI driver.

I can't test this right now but it should work.  The relevant code is
in src/arch/i386/drivers/net/.

Good luck :)
Stefan

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