[eepro100] PXE/DHCP using Intel Pro/100 VE

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Marti wrote:

> I'm having difficulty getting some Gateway machines with integrated
> Pro/100 VEs to boot using PXE. They'll boot fine, fine pxelinux, and
> load the kernel, recognizing the ethernet card, but will not make any
> attempts (as far as I can determine from the console output) to
> autonegotiate DHCP.

Do you mean "second phase DHCP", where they send a new request to the
DHCP server asking for what NFS file system to mount?

> The kernel then stops, waiting for a root
> filesystem. Based on resources I've come up with from this and other
> lists' archives, I've tried:

What driver version?
What is the detection message?

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