Re: gPXE does not recognize 2nd tg3 NIC

On 3/15/10 10:14 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> 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

Yes, the tg3 is still in my queue.  Since no one has funded it, it
slipped below the e1000 family, which I recently did.  The Broadcom bnx2
is also on my list of drivers to update.

Does anybody want to fund either of those?  If so, please feel free to
email me directly.

/ Marty /



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