GRUB pxeboot "No ethernet card found"

reinog · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Vienna/Austria

Hello to all Gentooists out there!

I am trying to make a network boot on an IBM ThinkPad T30 with an Intel Pro/100 VE.

IBM Boot Agent 4.1.07 comes up, DHCP and TFTP work fine and GRUB starts.
Unfortunately GRUB does not find the ethernet card! I configured the eepro100 support in GRUB.
As the Intel Pro/100 VE is based on an 8255x chip I thought this will work.

Does anybody know, if this adapter works with GRUB? Or did I make a mistake?

Any help appreciated.

Best regards,
Reinhard

stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

It just probably needs a newer version of the driver.
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reinog · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Vienna/Austria

I built GRUB with the options --enable-diskless --enable-eepro100. As far as I understood after searching through the pages of GRUB, IBM, Intel, ... this does not use a normal driver but relys on support for nics from etherboot. So I see no possibility to use a newer driver.

br
Reinhard