[syslinux] Yukon Nic

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 9 10:01:18 PST 2007


Steven Shiau wrote:
> Sorry, Dave did not provide more details. Let me explain more.
> One of the NICs I know does not work with pxelinux 3.05 to 3.32-pre8 is
> Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit. Another one, which Dave is using, is
> Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E-Fast Ethernet Controller (Yukon PXE
> v.5.12.1.3 ( 20060316)).
> The problem is When pxelinux client boots, no matter it's menu.c32 or
> vesamenu.c32 (for newer version), it just fails before the menu is shown.
> For pxelinux/syslinux 2.0 to 3.02. It works. 3.02 can work with menu,
> and it runs smoothly. I think there is something changed from syslinux
> 3.02 to 3.05.

I looked through the changelogs, and there is only one possible change 
from 3.02 to 3.05 which could cause this class of problems.  It's a 
fairly complex changeset, but therein might lie a clue.

	-hpa




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