netboot problem - eth0 no such device

[cameleon]

Hello,
I have problem with dell optiplex 380 while using netboot. After successfully booting from PXE, for ex. ntfs-write-image, init scripts tell me that "all network devices up". After that there is a monit to enter manually IP address of client, then:
eth0: error while getting interfaces flag: no such device
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

Boot image is the new one - 20100301. Error only occures with this optiplex model, so i think that drivers to NIC are not recognized by opsi boot image.
Is there any way to manually compile drivers into boot image?

Thank you

[d.oertel]

Hi,

similar problems with optiplex 380 were reported at the german forum.
The newest Linux kernel seems to hav some problems with this network chip.
At the moment there is no possibility for you to integrate a driver by your self.
What you can try is to test different bootimages (or boot cd's) from
http://download.uib.de/opsi3.4/
http://download.uib.de/opsi3.4/testing/
http://download.uib.de/opsi3.4/experimental/

If you found one which works, please give feed back.

regards

d.oertel

[wolfbardo]

another workaround might be:

edit /tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/install

change line

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append noapic lang=de ...

:
in

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append acpi=off noapic lang=de ...

regards
Bardo Wolf

[cameleon]

thanks for reply.
I've tested all of boot images and none of them fix the problem :/

Also adding acpi=off doesnt change anything..

[cameleon]

lspci command shows the proper ethernet controller:
Ethernet controller: Broadcom corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
but ifconfig -a shows only lo. There is no eth. Driver problem ?

Will it be fixed in newest linux boot image?

[marbus16]

there is a big problem with broadcom onboard network chipset: they have often a slightly different hw/pci-id. due to that, most drivers won't work out of the box - you'll have to integrate the proper IDs in your driver/bootimage.

or wait and hope, that uib fixes that problem without support contract .