| 21:21.00 | *** join/##pxe extor (~extor@c-76-16-36-19.hsd1.il.comcast.net) |
| 21:21.02 | extor | I have an Intel 82559 based 10/100 NIC and would like to figure out if it supports PXE and if so how I can invoke PXE? |
| 21:22.18 | extor | It's got a big chip that says Pulse H1012 |
| 21:55.20 | Nirkus | extor: is there an empty sockel for an eeprom? |
| 21:57.18 | extor | no |
| 21:57.43 | extor | It seems to be an OEM Pulse H102 |
| 21:58.27 | extor | if the NIC has not socket for an eeprom...is it possible that an eeprom is built into the chipset? |
| 21:58.48 | Nirkus | extor: is there any vendor or model name on the card? |
| 21:59.23 | Nirkus | extor: yes. if it had an empty socket, that would almost certainly mean, it is missing the BIOS to serve as a PXE boot NIC |
| 22:00.04 | extor | Yes the vendor is Pulse |
| 22:00.32 | extor | FCC EJMNPDALBANY |
| 22:00.41 | extor | Chipset has GD82559 on it |
| 22:01.11 | extor | Another chip has Pulse H1012 on it which seems to be the make and model "H10102" by Pulse |
| 22:04.21 | extor | www.pulseeng.com |
| 22:04.59 | Nirkus | extor: the pulse chip doenst matter, its just the analog interface to the 10/100 MBit link |
| 22:05.35 | Nirkus | extor: to know whether that card is PXE capable or not, you need to find info on the card, not the cipset |
| 22:05.44 | Nirkus | s/cipset/chipset/ |
| 22:05.44 | extor | Well its not an intel manufactured NIC..pulse assembled it |
| 22:05.55 | extor | arghhh |
| 22:06.03 | extor | info on that card is nonexistent unfortunately |
| 22:06.39 | Nirkus | extor: or you could just plug it into your system and search your BIOS settings for the right setting to enable booting off the network |
| 22:07.49 | extor | So treating it as a regular intel Pro/1000 NIC would be disasterous? |
| 22:07.58 | extor | Pro/100 NIC I meant |
| 22:08.40 | Nirkus | extor: what do you mean by 'treating it' |
| 22:08.42 | Nirkus | ? |
| 22:09.34 | extor | as in using the intel DOS diagnostic utility to probe it, and try to invoke PXE on it |
| 22:10.15 | Nirkus | phew... it its an intel reference design, chances are high, intel tools will work |
| 22:10.32 | Nirkus | extor: but i have no idea whether or not those tool may damage that NIC |
| 22:10.42 | extor | but was the Pro 100 NIC PXE capable? |
| 22:10.50 | Nirkus | extor: if it were me, id just try |
| 22:10.55 | extor | I will just try |
| 22:10.58 | extor | when I have time |
| 22:11.21 | Nirkus | extor: but why do you need DOS to see whther that card provides PXE support? |
| 22:11.52 | Nirkus | the idea of PXE is to boot off the net w/o loading an 'operating system', if you wanna call DOS an OS |
| 22:12.11 | extor | because the old school NIC diagnostic utilities run in DOS do they not? |
| 22:12.24 | extor | Unless they were all ported to linux which I now run |
| 22:12.43 | Nirkus | extor: usually PXE capable cards have an BIOS extension foo (dont remember the correct name) which gets loaded by your PC BIOS during bootup |
| 22:13.20 | extor | Nirkus I have a setting in my BIOS for a realtek NIC...donno if it will suddenly accomodate the Intel |
| 22:13.31 | Nirkus | oO |
| 22:13.37 | Nirkus | extor: onboard realtek NIXs? |
| 22:13.46 | Nirkus | s/NIXs/NICs/ |
| 22:14.35 | extor | yes unfortunately |
| 22:14.39 | extor | On a couple of my biostars |
| 22:15.01 | extor | they refuse to PXE boot when connected to a cisco switch...hence the search for addon NICs |
| 22:15.11 | Nirkus | extor: there werequite a few NICs called "Pro/100 (M|V|S|.)" |
| 22:15.26 | Nirkus | hihi |
| 22:15.36 | Nirkus | extor: you got PCIe on that boards? |
| 22:17.36 | extor | yes but I have no PCI-E NICs |
| 22:17.49 | extor | just PCI nics |
| 22:22.27 | Nirkus | extor: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36667 |
| 22:22.44 | Nirkus | those will do PXE boot and gigabit according to datasheet |
| 22:23.18 | Nirkus | extor: i have 2 of them in use for a direct link between two of my systems |
| 22:23.26 | Nirkus | extor: but never triesd to PXE boot em :) |
| 22:24.35 | Nirkus | extor: they are ⬠28,- a piece (bulk) |
| 22:25.55 | Nirkus | extor: you should put that NIC into one of your systems and boot into BIOS. if you find an option to boot off those cards, they are PXE capable |
| 22:26.42 | Nirkus | extor: and if you cannot find any option, but see some output from that NIC during normal bootup, they are PXE capable, too |
| 22:27.02 | Nirkus | extor: somethint like "Intel MBA vfoo.bar.foo..." |
| 23:13.20 | extor | Those are very expensive. |
| 23:14.18 | extor | I guess my Realtek NIC doesn't support TCP offloading which is kind of bad. So maybe I need some decent server quality NICs that do support PXe, have their own CPUs..full CPUs and also support TCP offload |
| 23:23.36 | extor | http://rom-o-matic.net/etherboot/etherboot-5.4.4/contrib/rom-o-matic/ |
| 23:23.43 | extor | This is amazing |
| 23:24.15 | extor | I'm creating a boot image for my NIC the r8169 driver....and going to dd that to a floppy and see if that fixes my RealTek problem |
| 23:41.15 | extor | That rom-o-matic code didnt work |
| 23:41.17 | extor | I wonder why |
| 23:41.24 | extor | I used the 8169 driver |