Re: Etherboot support for newer NICs

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Chapman, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
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> We are looking into developing new product with off-the-shelf motherboards but newer motherboards are all coming with PCIe bus NICs.
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> Does anyone know of any support for at a minimum the newer Realtek or Intel NICs?
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gPXE has drivers for Realtek 8139 and compatibles, and Realtek 8169
and compatible cards. The Intel GBit cards that are supported should
be equal to the linux e1000 driver, with additional support for some
e1000e cards, and one card supported by igb. You will have to be more
specific if you want more information(i.e. provide PCI IDs of the
cards).

If the cards are not supported, you have several options:
- write a driver yourself in-house
- wait for the community to create one. This is a gamble, as it could
happen any day, or not at all
- fund the development of a driver

As far as I know, both Michael Brown, gPXE Lead Programmer(
[email protected] ) and Marty Connor, gPXE Project Leader(
[email protected] ) develop device drivers for funding. Contact them
if you're interested.

Thomas

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