Re: gPXE does not recognize 2nd tg3 NIC

Michael Brown <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:14:16 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 15 Mar 2010 14:03:48 Arie Goldfeld wrote:
> I am trying to etherboot my old IBM blade which has two Broadcom
>  Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X NICs. The problem is gPXE (which I boot
>  from CD for the time being) does not see the 2nd NIC, which is necessary
>  to load the boot image via iscsi.

The gPXE tg3 driver is still using the Etherboot legacy driver API, which 
allows for only one network device.  Until someone rewrites this driver to use 
the gPXE API, there's no (non-hackish) solution to this problem.

I believe that Marty was working on a tg3 rewrite a year or two ago, but I 
don't know what happened to it.  Marty?

Michael

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