[syslinux] Yukon Nic

[H. Peter Anvin]

Stefan wrote:
> Matt Barbieri schrieb:
>> Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
>>
>> Marvell Base code 1.10.1.3 (20060516),
>> Yukon PXE Version 5.14.1.3 (20060704), 
>> PXE v2.1.
>>   
> 
> Hallo 
> 
> we have some Benq notebooks with the Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCIe Gigabit 
> Ethernet Controller
> when I try to use menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32 with pxelinux  it stops after 
> loading the menu.c32/vesamenu.c32.
> 
> I watched the network traffic with ethereal on the server. Here now what 
> I found out:
> after the client gets the menu.c32 it requests the config file again, 
> this is answered  by the tftp-server.
> Normally now the client acknowledges this message and the tftp-server 
> starts sending the file.
> The tftp-server repeats his message for some times then the server 
> starts some arp requests for the client,
> which are not answered by the client too.
> 

Yes, this has been reported.  Unfortunately none of the Marvell cards I 
have exhibits this problem, which makes it very hard for me to debug.

It's apparently known that this is a Marvell PXE stack bug, but it's 
very hard to know if it can be worked around without a live specimen 
in-house.

	-hpa